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An 8 page research paper that summarizes, compares and contrasts two texts on geographic regional studies: D.W. Meinig's The Shaping of America A Geographical Perspective on 500 years of History, Vol. 1 Atlantic America, 1492-1800 and The Making of Urban America, edited by Raymond A. Mohl. This comparison looks at how various authors view spatial and social organization in American society at two levels, which are examining territory at large and the political economic, social and cultural aspects of different regions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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characterizes the physical and living environment," which includes not only the "infrastructure created by people," but also their methodology for "making the best possible use of their lands and subterranean
resources" (Claval 3). On another level, geographical observation notes changes of scale, which reveal "how component parts fit together to form fairly extensive wholes" (Claval 3). In developing regional studies,
geographers demonstrate that theirs is a practice that encompasses the "science of human beings and society" (Claval 3). As this indicates, such studies in geography look at all aspects of
human society and its interaction with the environment The following discussion of regional studies contrasts and compares two texts: D.W. Meinigs The Shaping of America A Geographical Perspective on 500
years of History, Vol. 1 Atlantic America, 1492-1800 and The Making of Urban America, edited by Raymond A. Mohl. This comparison looks at how various authors view spatial and social
organization in American society at two levels, which are examining territory at large and the political economic, social and cultural aspects of different regions. Emphasis in the texts The
Making of Urban America : Editor Raymond Mohl divides the essays that he includes in his text into three principal groups. The first section of his book pertains to the
pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the interpretive concerns of recent historians about the early
American town and city" (Mohl 10). Gary B. Nash, for example, offers "a new interpretative model for understanding the dynamics of urban social development in eighteenth-century America" (Mohl 10).
Colonial cities, according to Nash, constituted the "cutting edge" of change and were locales in which evolutionary processes served to reshape all aspects of life in the pre-industrial city. Timothy
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