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| Introduction | |
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| World Regional Geography: Global Perspectives | |
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| Geographic Perspectives | |
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| Realms and Regions | |
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| Criteria for Geographic Realms | |
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| Criteria for Regions | |
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| Realms and Regions on the Map | |
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| The Map Revolution | |
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| Scale and Detail | |
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| The Physical Setting | |
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| Natural (Physical) Landscapes) | |
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| Continents and Plates | |
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| Natural Hazards | |
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| Climate | |
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| Realms of Population | |
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| Major Population Clusters | |
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| Regions and Cultures | |
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| Cultural Landscapes | |
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| Culture and Ethnicity | |
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| The Geography of Language | |
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| Major Population Clusters | |
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| Realms, Regions, and States | |
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| The State | |
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| States and Realms | |
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| Political Geography | |
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| Patterns of Development | |
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| Symptoms of Underdevelopment | |
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| The Specter of Debt | |
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| Globalization | |
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| The Regional Framework | |
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| Europe | |
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| Russia | |
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| North America | |
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| Middle America | |
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| South America | |
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| Subsaharan Africa | |
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| North Africa/Southwest Asia | |
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| South Asia | |
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| East Asia | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| Austral Realm | |
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| Pacific Realm | |
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| The Perspective of Geography | |
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| Table G-1. Area and Demography Data | |
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| For the World's States | |
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| Europe | |
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| Defining The Realm | |
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| Geographical Features | |
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| Europe's Eastern Border | |
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| Resources | |
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| Climates | |
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| Human Diversity | |
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| Locational Advantages | |
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| Landscapes and Opportunities | |
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| Historical Geography 51 Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome | |
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| Triumph and Collapse | |
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| Rebirth and Royalty | |
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| The Revolutions of Modernizing Europe | |
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| The Agrarian Revolution | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Political Revolutions | |
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| Contemporary Europe | |
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| Language and Religion | |
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| Spatial Interaction | |
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| A Highly Urbanized Realm | |
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| A Changing Population | |
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| Europe's Modern Transformation | |
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| European Unification | |
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| Policies and Priorities | |
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| New Money | |
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| Momentous Expansion | |
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| Regional Issue | |
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| Centrifugal Forces | |
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| The EU's New Economic Geography | |
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| Regions of the Realm | |
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| Western Europe | |
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| Reunited Germany | |
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| France | |
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| Benelux | |
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| The Alpine States | |
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| The British Isles | |
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| States and People | |
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| Roots of Devolution | |
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| A Discrete Region | |
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| End of Empire | |
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| The United Kingdom | |
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| Republic of Ireland | |
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| Northern (Nordic) Europe | |
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| Mediterranean Europe | |
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| Italy> | |
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| Iberia | |
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| Greece | |
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| Cyprus and Malta | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| Cultural Legacies | |
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| The Geographic Framework | |
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| Countries Facing the Baltic Sea | |
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| The Landlocked Center | |
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| Countries Facing the Black Sea | |
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| Countries Facing the Adriatic Sea | |
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| Russia | |
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| Defining The Realm | |
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| An Internal Empire | |
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| Roots of the Russian Realm | |
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| A Vibrant Culture | |
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| Empire of the Czars | |
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| Communist Victory | |
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| Seven Fateful Decades | |
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| Russia's Physical Geography | |
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| Harsh Environments | |
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| Physiographic Regions | |
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| Evolution of the Russian State | |
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| The Mongol Invasion | |
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| Grand Duchy of Muscovy | |
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| The Cossacks | |
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| Czar Peter the Great | |
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| Czarina Catherine the Great | |
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| A Russian Empire | |
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| The Colonial Legacy | |
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| An Imperial, Multinational State | |
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| The Soviet Legacy | |
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| The Political Framework | |
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| The Soviet Economic Framework | |
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| Russia's Changing Political Geography | |
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| The Federal Framework of Russia | |
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| Regional Issue | |
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| Changing Social Geographies | |
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| Russia's Demographic Dilemma | |
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| Russia's Prospects | |
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| Heartland and Rimland | |
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| Russia and the World | |
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| Unresolved Problems | |
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| Regions Of The Realm | |
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| Russian Core and Peripheries | |
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| Povolzhye: The Volga Region | |
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| The Internal Southern Periphery | |
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| The Urals Region | |
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| The Eastern Frontier | |
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