Abstract
PROF. BRIGHAM, already known to geologists by a concise and clearly written text-book, here makes an appeal to the historian and the geographer. He does not start with generalisations as to the arrival of the first men on the American continent, or as to its situation between the two ends of the Old World; but he brings us at once to the adventures of Columbus, of Cartier, and then of the English settlers, who found Spaniards south of them and Frenchmen to the north, and who thereupon colonised the central seaboard. “America,” in this compact treatise, is wisely limited to the United States, with so much of Canada as is inevitably mingled with their history. The style is direct and even vigorous; in Prof. Brigham's crisp sentences there is a continual mental stimulus, and it would be hard to find a redundant word. We do not like the poetry that is quoted in the book, for the benefit of the general reader, half so much as the author's own admirable prose.
Geographic Influences in American History.
By Albert Perry Brigham, Professor of Geology in Colgate University. Pp. xii + 366. (Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Co., 1903.) Price 6s.
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COLE, G. Geographic Influences in American History . Nature 69, 315–316 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069315a0
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