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Article: Book review essay: a Boltonian revival? D.W. Meinig and upper North American history.(The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years on History, Vol. 4, Global America, 1915-2000)(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
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- June 22, 2006
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D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years on History, Volume 4, Global America, 1915-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 488 pp. $45.00 cloth.
D.W. Meinig, Maxwell Research Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, has published the fourth and final volume of his epochal geographical perspective on five hundred years of American history. He has received wide and mounting praise for each previous volume, and the same will happen here, and for the entire series. Any student of the United States past, present, and future should both celebrate and indulge themselves. So should they in Canadian studies, although Meinig ...