Allen G. Noble, ed., To Build a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1992).

(from Amazon:)
A collection of twenty-two original essays by noted authorities on the distinctive cultural landscapes created by the immigration of various European groups, mostly in the nineteenth century, and the migrations of Black and Native American groups. A rich portrait of the ethnic groups that have helped mold the cultures of the United States and Canada.

(From Worldcat:
Nature's continent / Stanely W. Trimble -- The Indian legacy in the American landscape / Karl W. Butzer -- Spanish legacy in the borderlands / David Hornbeck -- French landscapes in North America / Cole Harris -- The Northeast and the making of American geographical habits / Peirce F. Lewis -- Plantations and the moulding of the southern landscape / Sam B. Hilliard -- Toward a national landscape / Hildegard Binder Johnson -- The clearing of the forests / Michael Williams -- Settlement of the American grassland / John C. Hudson -- Challenging the desert / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- Democratic utopia and the American landscape / James E. Vance, Jr. -- Ethnicity on the land / Michael P. Conzen -- The new industrial order / David R. Meyer -- The Americanization of the city / Edward K. Muller.
Landscapes redesigned for the automobile / John A. Jakle -- The imprint of central authority / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Landscapes of private power and wealth / William K. Wyckoff -- The house in the vernacular landscape / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- Afterword / Michael P. Conzen.")


Links to Michael Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape, (Routledge, 1990)
"This well-illustrated volume presents for the first time a fascinating and comprehensive view of the cultural evolution of the American landscape. Written by a team of leading scholars, the essays examine key historical forces in the settlement and human shaping of the land over the past 10,000 years, with an emphasis on the past three centuries. Through carefully chosen illustration, the book shows the reader how to "read" in today's landscape the record of this transformation. The major historical forces that shaped the American cultural landscape are viewed from the varied perspective of ethnic and cultural movements, environmetnal challenge and response, and urbanization. The contributors discuss a rich selection of themes including: the diverse influence of colonial powers on early settlement; the emergence of regional types of landscape; the impact of ideology on landscape; and the contributions of technological change to landscape development."

An Alcuin search led to:

Myth, memory, and the making of the American landscape / edited by Paul A. Shackel
Pub Info	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2001

posted by Lloyd at 6:01 AM

Thomas Buchanan,

Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Life-Mississippi-Western-Steamboat/dp/0807858137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250122190&sr=1-1
posted by Lloyd at 5:11 PM

Timothy Silver,

A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800

"...thoroughly engrossing....Timothy Silver offers a wealth of fascinating information about the topography and the flora and fauna of the region east of the Appalachians, south of Pennsylvania, and north of the Okefenokee Swamp....rewarding reading." American Ethnologist

"Simply by assessing the ecological implications of European and Indian assumptions and practices concerning the fur trade, or describing Euro-African agricultural practices, Silver brings alive the ecologist's perception of nature as a complex web of interactions." Choice

"...original scholarship....Silver shows us how such history should be written." John Phillip Reid, Pacific Historical Review

"...this fine study serves not only as an agenda for research, but as a pioneering view of the early history of the American experience with nature in North America." Mart A. Stewart, The Americas

Product Description
In this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how all three cultures--Indian, European, and African--interacted with and were, in turn, affected by, their changing environment. In assessing such ecological changes, Silver pays particular attention to regional variations, explaining how local geography and settlement patterns influenced the environment. And while his focus is the English South, Silver also shows us how economic and ecological developments in Europe, the Caribbean, and elsewhere frequently dictated how South Atlantic colonists used their land. Consequently, his book provides an engaging and detailed look at the complex relationships among humans, plants, and animals in a unique and diverse region of North America.

(Cambridge 1990)
posted by Lloyd at 11:35 AM