D. W. Meinig

D. W. Meinig (Donald William Meinig) born 1924 is an American geographer, focusing on historical geography, regional geography, cultural geography, social geography, and landscape interpretation. His most ambitious and well known work is the four volume series "The Shaping of America" (published 1986, 1993, 1998, and 2004). He is a Maxwell Research Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. He also Concentrated on Literary Spaces, and Geography, in which he stated, 'Literature is a valuable storehouse of vivid depictions of the landscapes and lives of modern day society'.

His principal publications include:
 * The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 4: Global America, 1915-2000 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004).
 * The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995).
 * The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 2, Continental America, 1800-1867 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992).
 * The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1, Atlantic America, 1492-1800 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986).
 * (Editor, with John Brinckerhoff Jackson) The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes (New York, Oxford University Press, 1979).
 * Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change 1600-1970 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1971).
 * Imperial Texas, An Interpretative Essay in Cultural Geography (Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969).
 * The Great Columbia Plain, A Historical Geography, 1805- 1910 (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1968).