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Book SynopsisSusan Wiley Hardwick is professor emeritus at the University of Oregon where she specializes in the geography of North America, urban and cultural geography, and the geography of immigration. Susan has authored seven other books and dozens of articles and book chapters. She is a former President of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) and has been involved in numerous national geography education initiatives, including The National Geography Standards, The Roadmap to Geography Project, and the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE). She is perhaps best known as the co-host of The Power of Place an Annenberg geography series produced for public television. She is the recipient of numerous grants and teaching and professional awards, including the statewide California Outstanding Professor Award, where she was selected out of more than 23,000 faculty when she taught at California at State University, Chico. She received her B
Table of ContentsBrief Contents
- Introduction
- North America’s Environmental Setting
- Historical Settlement of North America
- North American Political Economy
- The Atlantic Periphery
- Quebec
- Megalopolis
- The Great Lakes and Corn Belt
- The Inland South
- The Coastal South
- The Great Plains
- The Rocky Mountains
- Intermontane West
- MexAmerica
- California
- The Pacific Northwest
- Hawai’i and the Pacific Islands
- The Far North
- The Future of North America
