Formally retired environmental historian/ historical geographer with a life-long fascination for the intricate entanglements of the human and non-human components of our world
M any nineteenth-century authors were criticalof the North American lumber industry and of those ... more M any nineteenth-century authors were criticalof the North American lumber industry and of those who participated in it.' Some condemned lumbering as an uncertain, itinerant business that led people to live, at risk, "upon the capital instead of the annual produce" of the country." Others denounced the harmful social effects of forest employment. In their view, lumbering drew people away from home and sub-
Published over eighteen years, between 1986 and 2004, in four volumes and well over 2000 pages, D... more Published over eighteen years, between 1986 and 2004, in four volumes and well over 2000 pages, Donald Meinig's The Shaping of America quartet is one of modern geography's most substantial achievements. It warrants and repays careful attention. This essay seeks first to situate or contextualize The Shaping project by attending to the development of Meinig's ideas and scholarship before 1986. It argues that the approaches and emphases of Meinig's magnum opus were substantially but not entirely adumbrated by his earlier work and that the four volumes reflect something of the intellectual contexts in which Meinig developed his ideas about historical geography and the discipline more generally, as well as of Meinig's own particular interests and circumstances. The second section of this essay turns attention to the four volumes and offers some assessment of their contribution to, and significance for, geography, historical geography, and the study of American and Atlantic history.
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'
BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, Jul 12, 2012
his is not a guide to locating the best pizzerias in British Columbia's largest city. My title is... more his is not a guide to locating the best pizzerias in British Columbia's largest city. My title is an echo of one that I have long secretly, and curiously, admired for its sheer panache: New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver. Published in 1849 by the firm of W.F. Burgess, this slender, 128-page volume sold for thirty-seven and a half cents and brought together a series of thirty-four pithy essays that first appeared in the New York Tribune. Written in vigorous-some might even say purple-prose, these "slices" cut to the heart of the city to reveal its dark underbelly. The "experienced carver" (now known to have been George G. Foster) was a "muckraker," one of the earliest in a considerable and important line of commentators and social reformers (among them Henry Mayhew, Charles Booth, and Seebohm Rowntree in Britain, and Herbert Brown Ames in Montreal) who sought to raise public awareness of the extent and human consequences of poverty and destitution in the great metropoli of their times. 1 My purposes are different. This is a review rather than a report, a reflection on the work of others rather than a correspondent's account from the depths of the urban jungle. Explaining the mix of historical narrative, personal opinion, and informed critique woven around a rich array of illustrations (many from his own skilled hand) in Vanishing Vancouver, Michael Kluckner compares himself disarmingly, and far 1 New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver (New York: W.F. Burgess, 1849). George G. Foster was also the author of New York by Gas-Light With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine (New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1850), which also explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis. The reprint of some of Foster's writing as New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) includes a fine introduction by Stuart Blumin that sets Foster's life and work in context.
M any nineteenth-century authors were criticalof the North American lumber industry and of those ... more M any nineteenth-century authors were criticalof the North American lumber industry and of those who participated in it.' Some condemned lumbering as an uncertain, itinerant business that led people to live, at risk, "upon the capital instead of the annual produce" of the country." Others denounced the harmful social effects of forest employment. In their view, lumbering drew people away from home and sub-
Published over eighteen years, between 1986 and 2004, in four volumes and well over 2000 pages, D... more Published over eighteen years, between 1986 and 2004, in four volumes and well over 2000 pages, Donald Meinig's The Shaping of America quartet is one of modern geography's most substantial achievements. It warrants and repays careful attention. This essay seeks first to situate or contextualize The Shaping project by attending to the development of Meinig's ideas and scholarship before 1986. It argues that the approaches and emphases of Meinig's magnum opus were substantially but not entirely adumbrated by his earlier work and that the four volumes reflect something of the intellectual contexts in which Meinig developed his ideas about historical geography and the discipline more generally, as well as of Meinig's own particular interests and circumstances. The second section of this essay turns attention to the four volumes and offers some assessment of their contribution to, and significance for, geography, historical geography, and the study of American and Atlantic history.
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'
BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, Jul 12, 2012
his is not a guide to locating the best pizzerias in British Columbia's largest city. My title is... more his is not a guide to locating the best pizzerias in British Columbia's largest city. My title is an echo of one that I have long secretly, and curiously, admired for its sheer panache: New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver. Published in 1849 by the firm of W.F. Burgess, this slender, 128-page volume sold for thirty-seven and a half cents and brought together a series of thirty-four pithy essays that first appeared in the New York Tribune. Written in vigorous-some might even say purple-prose, these "slices" cut to the heart of the city to reveal its dark underbelly. The "experienced carver" (now known to have been George G. Foster) was a "muckraker," one of the earliest in a considerable and important line of commentators and social reformers (among them Henry Mayhew, Charles Booth, and Seebohm Rowntree in Britain, and Herbert Brown Ames in Montreal) who sought to raise public awareness of the extent and human consequences of poverty and destitution in the great metropoli of their times. 1 My purposes are different. This is a review rather than a report, a reflection on the work of others rather than a correspondent's account from the depths of the urban jungle. Explaining the mix of historical narrative, personal opinion, and informed critique woven around a rich array of illustrations (many from his own skilled hand) in Vanishing Vancouver, Michael Kluckner compares himself disarmingly, and far 1 New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver (New York: W.F. Burgess, 1849). George G. Foster was also the author of New York by Gas-Light With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine (New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1850), which also explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis. The reprint of some of Foster's writing as New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) includes a fine introduction by Stuart Blumin that sets Foster's life and work in context.
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