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Regional Geography - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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Regional Geography - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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There is only one region--the surface of the earth--on which
mankind finds its home. Yet, although much effort is devoted by
geographers towards the study of this diversified environment as a
whole, it has long seemed necessary, by the methods of aespecial'
or aeregional geography', to study its component parts. And
although nature abhors lines, geographers might appear to adore
them, so busily do they engage themselves in delimiting on their
maps allegedly significant areas called aeregions'. As a result,
every student of geography in school, college of education and
university has been taught, read books, and attempted to answer
questions on regional geography. The problem of region in
geographic thought--how it may be defined, how it has developed,
and how it is applied--has been vigorously debated within the
discipline. In this incisive examination of the types of regions
and regional methods treated in modern geography, Roger Minshull
analyzes in detail the concepts of formal, functional, and city
regions in an attempt to clarify this vexing problem. In addition
to sizes, shapes, boundaries, and organization, the phenomena that
usually form the content of regions are delineated in an attempt to
define the nature of regional geography. As some regions are seen
to be products of geographers' minds, it is suggested that certain
influences, especially the methods of mapping the separate topics
that form the content of regions, have been exaggerated.
Regionalism and possible alternatives to the regional method are
treated, and a large section of the book is devoted to the idea of
the compage, in which the geographer's choice of topics and method
of working is much freer than in more traditional approaches.
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