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D.W. Meinig's latest volume of 'The Shaping of America: A Geographic Perspective on 500 Years of History' is an outstanding work of scholarship. Like the two volumes that preceded it, volume three, 'Transcontinental America, 1850-1915,' discerns pattern and order in the grand sweep of history that it covers. Written in the best tradition of critically independent but humanistic scholarship, Meinig's book is easily one of the best works on economic geography written to date.

Espace et Culture, an international conference held in late-September, 1994 at Lac Beauport, Quebec City concluded that the concepts of space and culture has weakened the discipline of historical geography. The historians revealed the necessity to be competent with spatial disciplines.Fernando Lambert's paper depicted the spatial aspect of post-colonial West African novels. In favorable situations geography's status is found to be expansionistic; in adverse conditions it is a measure of institutional susceptibility.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF WASHINGTON AND OREGON by Derek Hayes University of California Press, Berkeley, 2011. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 240 pages. $39.95 cloth. Over the past dozen years, Derek Hayes has [...]

The article presents a deposition of an expert witness from the Canadian land claims case "Tk'kemlups Indian Band v. Canada and BC," examining the native land policies of British Columbia Governor James Douglas in the early 1860s. It focuses on the British Columbia's Kamloops Reserve, which was arranged by William G. Cox, a gold commissioner and magistrate, under Douglas' supervision. Reserves planned by surveyor William McColl in the same period are also discussed. Other topics include Native title and policies concerning Vancouver Island.

Examines native and non-native evidence for smallpox around the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound in the late eighteenth century. Devastation of the Salish peoples of the region in the winter of 1781-82; Incidence of smallpox in the lower British Columbia plains in 1780-81; Reluctance of scholars to identify smallpox on the early Northwest Coast; Estimates of immediate pre-smallpox population.