num_pages: 636
description: Continental America offers a rather different way of looking at a period of enormous expansion, development, and crisis in the career of the United States. Although it stands as a discrete, coherent work, it is best understood as a continuation of the special kind of description and assessment set forth in Atlantic America, 1492-1800, the opening volume of this geographic interpretation.
language: English
title: The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History: Volume 2: Continental America, 1800-1867
titlecomplete: The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History: Volume 2: Continental America, 1800-1867
genres: History, Geography, American History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 32
series: The Shaping of America
publisher: Yale University Press