Martin Gilbert - The Routledge Atlas of American History

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The Routledge Atlas of American History presents a series of 163 graphic and detailed maps, accompanied by informative captions, facts and figures. The complete history of America is unravelled through vivid representations of all the significant landmarks, including:

• Politics from the struggle against slavery and the battle for black voting rights to the present day, including the results of the 2008 presidential election
• Military events from the War of Independence, the Civil War, and Americas standing in two World Wars to the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf, including additional new maps covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Social history including the fate of the American Indians, the growth of female emancipation, and recent population movements and immigration
• Transport from nineteenth-century railroads and canals to the growth of air travel and recent ventures into space
• Economics from early farming and industry to urbanisation and the ecological struggles of the present day.

This revised edition is fully updated to cover the 2008 presidential election, and also addresses President Obamas healthcare policy and first overseas travels. New maps have also been drawn that detail recent developments in American relations with Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of the modern world. An Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford of which he was a Fellow for thirty years he is the official biographer of Churchill and the author of eighty-two books, among them Churchill A Life and Churchill and America. For more information please visit www.martingilbert.com

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Martin Gilbert

First published in 1968 as The Atlas of American History
by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Revised edition published 1985
by J.M. Dent Ltd
Third edition published 1993

Reprinted 1995
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Fourth edition published 2003
Reprinted 2003, 2004

Fifth edition published 2006
Reprinted 2006

Sixth edition published 2009

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

1968, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2003, 2006, 2009 Martin Gilbert

The right of Martin Gilbert to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Typeset in Janson Text by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk
Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Gilbert, Martin, 1936

The Routledge atlas of American history / Martin Gilbert. 6th ed.

p. cm.

1. United StatesHistoryMaps. 2. United StatesHistorical geography

Maps. I. Title.

G1201.SIG53 2009

911.73dc22

ISBN 10: 0-415-48838-9 (hbk)

ISBN 10: 0-415-48839-7 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-48838-9 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-48839-6 (pbk)

The idea for this atlas came to me while I was teaching at the University of South Carolina in 1965. Its aim is to provide a short but informative visual guide to American history. I have tried to make use of maps in the widest possible way, designing each one individually, and seeking to transform statistics and facts into something easily seen and grasped. My material has been obtained from a wide range of historical works, encyclopaedias, and newspaper and government reports.

More than twenty-five years have passed since the first publication of this atlas. It was a period marked first by the intensification and then by the ending of the Vietnam war, with more than 55,000 American dead. It was also a period marked by a substantial increase in the population of the United States, and continued immigration. This same period has seen the development of outer space as a region of defence policy. New maps cover these recent developments.