Opis: GINN AND COMPANY 1954 str. 386, 447 zdjęć w tekście, wiele map, stan bdb- (ślady używania, nieaktualne pieczątki) Contents HOW EUROPE WON A NEW WORLD News That Would Have Made Headlines The First Americans The Twelfth of Octoher, 1492 After Columbus From Colonies to Free Nations THE UNITED STATES The Land That Is Ours 1. A Large Country and a Rich One 2. Weather and Climate 3. "America the Beautiful" 4. The Mountains of Our Country 5. Glimpses of the Plains 6. The Uplands and Plateaus 7. Natural Regions and Political Divisions 8. The American Nation 9. Ahout Latitude and Longitude The New England States 1. New England Beginnings 2. Manufacturing in New England 3. New England Farming 4. New England's Fisheries 5. The Forests and the Quarries 6. Boston—New England's Largest City 7. New England as a Vacation Land The Middle Atlantic States 1. New York City 2. The Fall-Line Cities 3. The Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Belt 4. The Appalachian Mountains 5. The Appalachian Plateau 6. The New York Canal Belt and Its Northern Borderlands The Southern States 1. Agricultural Beginnings in the South 2. Cotton in the South 3. More about the Cotton Belt 4. Southern Forests 5. Southern Oil Fields 6. Regions Shared with the Middle Atlantic States 7. The Tennessee Valley and the Nashville Basin 8. The Florida Peninsula 9. The Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast Lands The Central States 1. How the Plains Were Settled 2. The Corn Belt 3. South of the Corn Belt 4. The Wheat Lands 5. North of the Corn Belt 6. Some Great Manufacturing Areas The Western States 1. Some Western Contrasts 2. Glimpses of the Great Plains 3. The Rocky Mountains 4. The Western Plateaus 5. Pacific Borderlands in the Northwest 6. Pacific Borderlands in the Southwest Our Bordering Oceans 1. How the Oceans Became Known 2. Some Atlantic and Pacific Comparisons 3. The Oceans as Highways 4. The Panama Canal 5. Freedom of the Seas The United States in Its Global Setting 1. The United States in the World of Land and Water 2. The United States in the World of Land, Water, and Air Outlying Lands Associated with the United States 1. Alaska—Our Largest Territory 2. The Hawaiian Islands 3. The Republic of the Philippines 4. American Lands in the West Indies CANADA Continental Canada 1. The Canadian People 2. Some Comparisons between Canada and the United States 3. The Maritime Provinces 4. The Eastern Plains 5. The Plains of the Prairie Provinces 6. The Canadian Far West 7. Northern Canada Newfoundland LATIN AMERICA Our Neighhors to the South Mexico—Our Nearest Southern Neighbor 1. How Mexico Was Won for Spain 2. Some Mexican Contrasts 3. The Coastal Regions 4. The Mexican Plateau and the Sierras The Republics of Central America The West Indies Middle America and the War The Spaniards and the Portuguese in South America Brazil 1. Eastern Brazil 2. The Amazon Lowlands 3. South Brazil and the Interior Savanna Uruguay Argentina 1. Buenos Aires and the Pampa 2. The Other Regions of Argentina Paraguay Chile i. Central Chile 2. Chiles North and South Bolivia Peru Ecuador Colombia Venezuela The Ouianas South America and the War REFERENCE MATERIAL INDEX AND PRONOUNCING WORD LIST
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