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Now in a completely updated, full-color edition, this leading
textbook has been thoroughly revised to reflect the sweeping
economic, social, and political changes the past decade has brought
to Europe and to incorporate new research and teaching approaches
in regional geography. The authors have especially expanded their
discussion of climate change and other environmental challenges
facing Europe, migration and the rise of right-wing populist
movements, and Brexit and other challenges facing the EU. They
employ a cultural-historical approach that is ideally suited to
facilitate understanding of Europe's complex geographical
character. Their topical organization-including environment,
ethnicity, religion, language, demography, politics, industry, and
urban and rural life-offers students a holistic understanding of
the diverse cultural area that is Europe. Inclusive, rich in ideas,
lively, interesting, and humanistic, The European Culture Area
remains the text of choice for courses on the geography of Europe.
The village of Djarkhan is in the heart of Russia's Sakha Republic,
on the Central Yakut Plain. The world around Djarkhan, with its
extreme subarctic climate and intractable permafrost, seems an
unlikely place to look for a rich, historic, and exotic
efflorescence of human life, and yet this is precisely what the
authors found. Their book is a remarkable account of how the people
of Djarkhan have created their own distinctive place through their
unique relationship with a severe and demanding land. This book
traces the way of life of the village's Turkic inhabitants, the
Yakuts, from their arrival in the 1600s through czarist times and
the Soviet era to the present day. As a native of the village,
geographer Bella Bychkova Jordan enjoyed unparalleled access to its
people and their stories, myths, humor, problems, and folklore.
Viewed through the prism of cultural geography, this material forms
the basis of a remarkable portrait of a people wresting a living
from the land in one of the coldest and most isolated spots on
Earth. Published in collaboration with the Center for American
Places.
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