Offers a survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. This book examines the large-scale historical influences that have moulded the varied human adaptation of the continent's physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years.

Comprehensive overview of an important new field in human geography and interdisciplinary studies of nature-society relations

Provides an account of the intellectual history of population geography. Using a range of case studies and contemporary examples, this book links the rise and fall of the key concepts in population geography to the changing social and economic context and to geography's turn towards social theory.

Practical and easy to use this book provides essential information for both practitioners and academics.