European Culture Area : A Systematic Geography

Name: European Culture Area : A Systematic Geography
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ISBN: 9780065007299

ISBN-10: 0065007298

ISBN-13: 9780065007299

Edition: 3rd 1996

Authors: Terry G. Jordan

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Now in its fourth edition, this leading textbook has been extensively revised to reflect the sweeping changes the past decade has brought to Europe and to incorporate new research in the field. Hailed for its creativity and intellectual depth, the book for the first time combines lead author Terry Jordan-Bychkov's decades of first-hand experience in Western and Central Europe with Bella Bychkova Jordan's expertise on European Russia to provide a comprehensive view of the region as a whole. The authors employ a humanistic geographical approach that is ideally suited to facilitate understanding of this ancient, complex culture. Their topical organization, including environment, religion,…

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List price: $85.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

The W. P. Webb Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Texas in Austin, Terry G. Jordan received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and was part of the strong tradition in historical geography there. Over the past 20 years, he has produced a set of books that combine the best traditions in cultural geography. In these works he has included both cultural landscape features, such as building types, and more broadly relevant historical topics, such as ethnicity. Jordan, who has served as president of the Association of American Geographers, also has brought his expertise to general texts in cultural geography.

Preface	p. xi
Metric and Centrigrade Conversions and Abbreviations	p. xv
Official Letter Codes and Native Names for Countries	p. xvi
Europe Defined	p. 1
The Continental Myth	p. 1
Europe as a Human Entity	p. 9
European Great Ideas	p. 14
Europe Bounded	p. 17
Advance and Retreat	p. 22
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 26
Habitat	p. 29
The European Mountains	p. 29
Earthquakes and Vulcanism	p. 34
The Plains of Europe	p. 37
The European Hills	p. 42
Human Modification of Terrain	p. 43
Major Climate Types	p. 44
Minor Climate Types	p. 50
Human Influence on Climate	p. 51
Vegetation Regions	p. 54
Forest Death	p. 65
Soil Regions	p. 65
Anthrosols	p. 67
Hydrogeography	p. 68
Dutch Coastline Alteration	p. 71
Coastal Silting	p. 77
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 79
Religion	p. 83
Pagan Europe	p. 83
Diffusion of Christianity	p. 86
Christian Fragmentation	p. 90
Roman Catholicism	p. 91
Pilgrimages	p. 93
Protestantism	p. 95
Eastern Orthodoxy	p. 98
The East-West Divide	p. 100
Uniate and Armenian Churches	p. 103
Dechristianization	p. 103
Sects and Cults	p. 106
Non-Christian Minorities	p. 106
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 112
Geolinguistics	p. 115
The Indo-European Language Family	p. 115
Indo-European Diffusion	p. 117
Romance Languages	p. 120
Germanic Languages	p. 124
Slavic Languages	p. 127
Celtic Languages	p. 129
Other Indo-European Groups	p. 132
Non-Indo-European Languages	p. 133
Linguistic Decline and Revival	p. 135
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 138
Geogenetics	p. 141
European Racial Self-Identity	p. 141
Racially Exotic Immigration	p. 142
Traditional Europoid Subraces	p. 144
Blood Chemistry	p. 147
DNA Research	p. 151
Neandertals and Moderns	p. 155
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 158
Geodemography	p. 161
Numbers	p. 161
Density and Distribution	p. 162
Migration	p. 163
Immigration	p. 166
Internal Migration	p. 168
Zero Population Growth	p. 169
Demographic Collapse?	p. 172
Age Structure	p. 174
Education	p. 174
Health	p. 176
Wealth	p. 179
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 180
Geopolitics	p. 185
Fragmentation	p. 185
Separatism	p. 187
The Ethnic Mainspring	p. 188
Nonethnic Separatism	p. 189
Types of States	p. 190
Boundaries	p. 195
France: A Successful Unitary State	p. 197
Germany: Federalism in the European Core	p. 200
The United Kingdom: Joining European Core and Periphery	p. 202
Italy: Roman Legacy	p. 205
Spain: A Multiethnic State	p. 207
Switzerland and Belgium: Astride a Language Divide	p. 208
Yugoslavia: A Balkan Tragedy	p. 211
Russia: Nation-State or Empire?	p. 214
Ukraine: From Border Province to Independent State	p. 217
The European Union	p. 218
NATO and Beyond	p. 223
Electoral Geography	p. 225
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 229
Cities	p. 233
The Mercantile City	p. 233
The Industrial City	p. 240
Counterurbanization	p. 241
Urban Site	p. 242
Cityscapes	p. 247
Urban Zones	p. 253
Human Patterns	p. 258
Types of Cities	p. 262
The Urban Network	p. 271
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 278
Primary and Secondary Industries	p. 283
Historical Geography	p. 283
Traditional Manufacturing Systems	p. 285
The Industrial Revolution	p. 286
Diffusion to the Mainland	p. 292
Spreading beyond the Coalfields	p. 296
Deindustrialization	p. 298
Industrial Rejuvenation	p. 302
Core and Periphery	p. 305
Environmental Damage	p. 306
The Green Movement	p. 308
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 310
Service Industries	p. 313
Highways	p. 314
Road Congestion	p. 320
Railroads	p. 322
Waterways	p. 326
Pipelines	p. 329
Air Transport	p. 330
Communications	p. 332
Euromobile	p. 332
Energy Production	p. 334
The Environmental Cost	p. 336
Producer Services	p. 336
Consumer Services	p. 338
Tourism	p. 339
A Mixed Blessing	p. 343
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 344
Agriculture	p. 347
Origin and Diffusion	p. 347
Mediterranean Agriculture: The Ager	p. 349
The Hortus	p. 350
The Saltus	p. 352
Mediterranean Rural Landscapes	p. 356
Three-Field Farming	p. 358
Villages and Fields	p. 362
Hardscrabble Herder-Farmers	p. 365
Burnbeaters of the North	p. 367
Nomadic Herding	p. 368
New Crop Introductions	p. 369
Specialization and Commercialization	p. 370
Market Gardening	p. 371
Dairying	p. 373
Cattle and Hog Fattening	p. 375
Sheep Raising	p. 377
Cash Grain Farming	p. 377
Reindeer Ranching	p. 377
Fish Farming	p. 378
Land Consolidation	p. 379
Land-Tenure Changes	p. 380
Development of Core and Periphery	p. 383
Rural Depopulation	p. 385
Preserving Rural Landscapes	p. 388
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 388
Regions	p. 393
The Europe of the Regions	p. 393
West versus East	p. 393
North versus South	p. 397
Core versus Periphery	p. 399
Eight Regions	p. 404
Sources and Suggested Readings	p. 405
Index	p. 409
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