Geography – Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations – USA

0-7876-7338-2, 0-7876-7774-4

In 1980, editor and publisher Moshe Y. Sachs set our ro create the Worldtnark Encyclopedia of the Nations, a new kind of reference work that would view every nation of the world as if through a ”world mirror” and not from the perspective of any one country or group of countries. In 1981, a companion volume, the World/nark Encyclopedia of the States, was introduced. It was selected as an ”Outstanding Reference Source” by the Reference Sources Committee of the American Library Association, Reference and Adult Services Division. The Gale Group now offers a revised and updated sixth edition of the Worldniark Encyclopedia of the States.The fitness of the United States of America as a subject for encyclopedic study is plain. No discussion of world politics, economics, culture, technology, or military affairs would be complete without an intensive examination of the American achievement. What is not so obvious is why the editors chose to present this work as an encyclopedia of the states rather than of the United States. In so doing, they emphasize the fact that the United States is a federal union of separate states with divergent histories, traditions, resources, laws, and economic interests.Every state, large or small, is treated in an individual chapter, within a framework of 50 standard subject headings; generally, the more populous the state, the longer the article. The District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico each have their own chapters, and two additional articles describe in summary the other Caribbean and Pacific dependencies. The concluding chapter is an overview of the nation as a whole. Supplementing this textual material are tables of conversions and abbreviations, a glossary, and more than 50 black-and-white maps prepared especially for this encyclopedia.Publication of this encyclopedia was a collective effort that enlisted the talents of scholars, government agencies, editor-writers, artists, cartographers, typesetters, proofreaders, and many others…

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, Sixth Edition……Page 4
CONTENTS……Page 5
CONTRIBUTORS……Page 6
Preface…….Page 8
Notes……Page 9
Guide to State Articles……Page 11
Conversion Tables……Page 12
Map of the USA……Page 13
ALABAMA……Page 14
ALASKA……Page 30
ARIZONA……Page 43
ARKANSAS……Page 57
CALIFORNIA……Page 71
COLORADO……Page 101
CONNECTICUT……Page 116
DELAWARE……Page 133
FLORIDA……Page 144
GEORGIA……Page 166
HAWAII……Page 184
IDAHO……Page 196
ILLINOIS……Page 207
INDIANA……Page 228
IOWA……Page 246
KANSAS……Page 259
KENTUCKY……Page 272
LOUISIANA……Page 287
MAINE……Page 303
MARYLAND……Page 315
MASSACHUSETTS……Page 331
MICHIGAN……Page 350
MINNESOTA……Page 370
MISSISSIPPI……Page 387
MISSOURI……Page 401
MONTANA……Page 417
NEBRASKA……Page 427
NEVADA……Page 439
NEW HAMPSHIRE……Page 449
NEW JERSEY……Page 459
NEW MEXICO……Page 477
NEW YORK……Page 489
NORTH CAROLINA……Page 517
NORTH DAKOTA……Page 537
OHIO……Page 547
OKLAHOMA……Page 567
OREGON……Page 580
PENNSYLVANIA……Page 594
RHODE ISLAND……Page 616
SOUTH CAROLINA……Page 627
SOUTH DAKOTA……Page 641
TENNESSEE……Page 651
TEXAS……Page 668
UTAH……Page 693
VERMONT……Page 705
VIRGINIA……Page 716
WASHINGTON……Page 735
WEST VIRGINIA……Page 750
WISCONSIN……Page 761
WYOMING……Page 777
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA……Page 787
PUERTO RICO……Page 797
UNITED STATES CARIBBEAN DEPENDENCIES……Page 811
UNITED STATES PACIFIC DEPENDENCIES……Page 813
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA……Page 818
Glossary……Page 871
Abbreviations and Acronyms……Page 872
The Flags of the USA……Page 873