Concepts and Regions in Geography

by H. J. de Blij (Michigan State University); Peter O. Muller (Univ. of Miami)

• ISBN13: 9780471093039
• ISBN10: 0471093033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Building upon the strength and success of deBlij & Muller2s best-selling Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, Tenth Edition, CONCEPTS AND REGIONS offers students and instructors all of the content that has made Regions the definitive World Regional Geography text but in a briefer, technologically-rich package. At about one-half the length of most world regional texts, the text offers brief regional descriptions, applications of core concepts, and definitions to acquaint students with the spatial interconnections between the human and physical systems of the earth. The accompanying interactive CD-ROM serves two key functions. First, the CD contains all of the content from Realms, Regions, and Concepts 10/e, allowing students and instructors to delve deeper into the subject matter found in the text. Second, the CD features the GeoDiscoveries Present-Interact-Assess framework which enables students to animate and interact with maps, view videos, and test themselves, providing them instant assessment feedback on key concepts. GeoDiscoveries for CONCEPTS features an interactive globe, multiple-choice questions, drag-and-drop map exercises, key term matching exercises, flashcards, demonstrations of concepts and geographic techniques, critical thinking exercises, interactive animations, and more. GeoDiscoveries is designed to be used both by students for understanding and assessment of key concepts, as well as by instructors for in-class presentations. The third component of the CONCEPTS learning system is its website, which features interactive testing, links to geographic organizations and interactive exercises that illustrate key concepts in action. Many weblinks come from region-specific sites, allowing students to listen to live radio broadcasts or to view real-time images from a region.

Table of Contents

introduction World Regional Geography	1	(4)
Geographic Perspectives	4	(1)
Realms and Regions	4	(3)
The Criteria for Realms	4	(2)
The Criteria for Regions	6	(1)
Regions at Scale	7	(1)
The Physical Setting	8	(5)
Continents and Plates	8	(1)
Climate	9	(4)
Regions and Cultures	13	(1)
Cultural Landscapes	13	(1)
Culture and Ethnicity	14	(1)
Realms of Population	14	(1)
Major Population Clusters	14	(1)
Realms, Regions, and States	15	(2)
Patterns of Development	17	(2)
Symptoms of Underdevelopment	18	(1)
The Specter of Debt	18	(1)
Globalization	19	(1)
The Regional Framework	19	(3)
Europe (1)	20	(1)
Russia (2)	20	(1)
North America (3)	20	(1)
Middle America (4)	20	(1)
South America (5)	21	(1)
North Africa/Southwest Asia (6)	21	(1)
Subsaharan Africa (7)	21	(1)
South Asia (8)	21	(1)
East Asia (9)	21	(1)
Southeast Asia (10)	21	(1)
Austral Realm (11)	21	(1)
Pacific Realm (12)	22	(1)
The Perspective of Geography	22	(1)
Area and Demographic Data for the World's States	23	(6)
Europe	29	(40)
Defining the Realm	32	(2)
Landscapes and Opportunities	34	(1)
Historical Geography	35	(1)
The Revolutions of Modernizing Europe	36	(3)
The Agrarian Revolution	36	(1)
The Industrial Revolution	37	(2)
Political Revolutions	39	(1)
Contemporary Europe	39	(3)
Spatial Interaction	41	(1)
An Urbanized Realm	41	(1)
A Changing Population Complexion	42	(1)
Europe's Transformation	42	(4)
Supranationalism in Europe (Box)	43	(1)
Centrifugal Forces	44	(2)
Regions of the Realm	46	(23)
Western Europe	46	(1)
Dominant Germany	46	(3)
France	49	(3)
Benelux	52	(1)
The Alpine States	52	(1)
The British Isles	52	(1)
The United Kingdom	53	(2)
Republic of Ireland	55	(1)
Northern (Nordic) Europe	55	(2)
Mediterranean Europe	57	(1)
Italy	57	(2)
Iberia	59	(2)
Greece and Cyprus	61	(1)
Eastern Europe	62	(2)
The Geographic Framework	64	(1)
Countries Facing the Baltic Sea	64	(1)
The Landlocked Center	64	(1)
Countries Facing the Black Sea	65	(1)
Countries Facing the Adriatic Sea	66	(3)
Russia	69	(26)
Defining the Realm	72	(1)
Russian Roots	73	(1)
Russia's Physical Environments	74	(2)
Physiographic Regions	75	(1)
Evolution of the Russian State	76	(2)
The Mongol Invasion	76	(1)
Grand Duchy of Muscovy	76	(1)
The Cossacks	76	(1)
Czar Peter the Great	76	(1)
Czarina Catherine the Great	77	(1)
A Russian Empire	77	(1)
The Colonial Legacy	78	(1)
An Imperial, Multinational State	78	(1)
The Soviet Legacy	78	(5)
The Political Framework	79	(1)
The Soviet Economic Framework	80	(3)
Russia's Changing Political Geography	83	(2)
The Federal Framework of Russia	83	(2)
Changing Social Geographies	85	(1)
Russia's Prospects	85	(1)
Russia's Role in the World	86	(1)
Regions of the Realm	86	(9)
Russian Core and Peripheries	86	(1)
Central Industrial Region	87	(1)
Povolzhye: The Volga Region	87	(1)
The Urals Region	88	(1)
The Internal Southern Periphery	88	(1)
The External Southern Periphery	89	(2)
The Eastern Frontier	91	(1)
The Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbas)	92	(1)
The Lake Baykal Area (Baykaliya)	92	(1)
Siberia	92	(1)
The Russian Far East	92	(3)
North America	95	(30)
Defining the Realm	99	(1)
North America's Physical Geography	99	(3)
Physiography	99	(1)
Climate	99	(2)
Hydrography (Surface Water)	101	(1)
The United States	102	(10)
Population in Time and Space	102	(7)
Cultural Geography	109	(1)
The Changing Geography of Economic Activity	110	(2)
Canada	112	(4)
Population in Time and Space	113	(1)
Cultural/Political Geography	114	(2)
Economic Geography	116	(1)
Regions of the Realm	116	(9)
The North American Core	116	(2)
The Maritime Northeast	118	(1)
French Canada	118	(1)
The Continental Interior	118	(1)
The South	119	(1)
The Southwest	120	(1)
The Western Frontier	121	(1)
The Northern Frontier	122	(1)
The Pacific Hinge	122	(3)
Middle America	125	(24)
Defining the Realm	128	(1)
Physiography	129	(1)
Land Bridge	129	(1)
Island Chains	130	(1)
Legacy of Mesoamerica	130	(1)
The Lowland Maya	130	(1)
The Highland Aztecs	131	(1)
Collision of Cultures	131	(1)
Effects of the Conquest	132	(1)
Mainland and Rimland	132	(2)
The Hacienda	133	(1)
The Plantation	134	(1)
Political Differentiation	134	(1)
Regions of the Realm	135	(14)
The Caribbean Basin	135	(1)
Problems of Widespread Poverty	135	(1)
African and Asian Legacies	135	(1)
Tourism: The Irritant Industry	136	(1)
Regional Cooperation	136	(1)
New Opportunities and Challenges	137	(1)
The Continental Mosaic	138	(1)
Mexico	138	(2)
Revolution and Its Aftermath	140	(1)
The Changing Geography of Economic Activity	141	(2)
NAFTA and Continuing Challenges	143	(1)
The Central American Republics	143	(1)
Altitudinal Zonation of Environments	143	(1)
Population Patterns	144	(1)
Emergence From A Turbulent Era	144	(1)
Country Profiles	145	(4)
South America	149	(26)
Defining the Realm	152	(1)
The Human Sequence	152	(3)
The Inca Empire	153	(1)
The Iberian Invaders	153	(1)
The Africans	154	(1)
Longstanding Isolation	155	(1)
Independence	155	(1)
Cultural Fragmentation	155	(1)
Economic Integration	156	(1)
Urbanization	157	(2)
The ``Latin'' American City Model	158	(1)
Regions of the Realm	159	(16)
Brazil: Giant of south America	159	(1)
Human and Natural Resources	159	(2)
Brazil's Subregions	161	(3)
The North: Caribbean South America	164	(1)
Venezuela	164	(1)
Colombia	164	(3)
The Guianas	167	(1)
The West: Andean South America	167	(1)
Peru	167	(2)
Ecuador	169	(1)
Bolivia	169	(1)
The Southern Cone: Mid-Latitude South america	170	(1)
Argentina	170	(2)
Uruguay	172	(1)
Paraguay	173	(1)
Chile	173	(2)
North Africa/Southwest Asia	175	(34)
Defining the Realm	178	(2)
An ``Arab World''?	179	(1)
An ``Islamic World''?	179	(1)
``Middle East''?	179	(1)
Hearths of Culture	180	(2)
Mesopotamia and the Nile	181	(1)
Decline and Decay	182	(1)
Stage for Islam	182	(2)
The Arab-Islamic Empire	183	(1)
Islam Divided	184	(3)
Religious Fundamentalism in the Realm	185	(1)
Islam in Europe	186	(1)
The Power and Peril of Oil	187	(2)
Location of Known Reserves	187	(1)
A Foreign Invasion	188	(1)
Regions of the Realm	189	(20)
Egypt and the Lower Nile Basin	191	(1)
Egypt's Regional Geography	191	(1)
Northern, Arabized Sudan	192	(1)
The Maghreb and Its Neighbors	193	(1)
The African Transition Zone	194	(1)
The Middle East	195	(4)
The Arabian Peninsula	199	(1)
Saudi Arabia	200	(1)
On the Periphery	201	(1)
The Empire States	201	(1)
Turkey	201	(2)
Iran	203	(1)
Turkestan	203	(6)
Subsaharan Africa	209	(28)
Defining the Realm	212	(1)
Africa's Physiography	212	(2)
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics	213	(1)
Natural Environments	214	(1)
Environment and Health	215	(1)
Land and Farming	216	(1)
Africa's Historical Geography	217	(5)
African Genesis	218	(1)
Early Trade	218	(1)
Early States	218	(1)
The Colonial Transformation	219	(1)
Colonization	220	(2)
Cultural Patterns	222	(1)
African Languages	222	(1)
Religion in Africa	223	(1)
Modern Map and Traditional Society	223	(1)
Population and Urbanization	223	(1)
Regions of the Realm	224	(13)
West Africa	224	(1)
Nigeria	224	(2)
Coast and Interior	226	(2)
Equatorial Africa	228	(1)
The Congo	229	(1)
Across the River	229	(1)
East Africa	229	(3)
Madagascar	232	(1)
Southern Africa	232	(1)
The Northern Tier	233	(1)
Southern States	233	(1)
South Africa	234	(3)
South Asia	237	(26)
Defining the Realm	239	(1)
A Realm of Poverty	240	(2)
Physiographic Regions of South Asia	242	(1)
The Human Sequence	243	(3)
Asoka's Mauryan Empire	243	(1)
The Power of Islam	244	(1)
The European Intrusion	245	(1)
Colonial Transformation	245	(1)
Partition	245	(1)
The Kashmir Issue	246	(1)
South Asia's Population Dilemma	246	(3)
Geography of Demography	247	(2)
Regions of the Realm	249	(14)
Pakistan: On South Asia's Western Flank	249	(2)
The Provinces	251	(1)
Prospects	251	(1)
India: Fifty-Plus Years of Federation	251	(1)
States and Peoples	252	(1)
India's Changing Map	253	(1)
The Sikhs	254	(1)
The Muslims	254	(1)
Centrifugal Forces: From India to Hindustan?	254	(1)
Centripetal Forces	255	(1)
Urbanization	256	(1)
Economic Geography	256	(2)
India East and West	258	(1)
Bangladesh: Persistent Poverty	259	(1)
The Mountainous North	260	(1)
The Southern Islands	261	(1)
Sri Lanka: South Asian Tragedy	261	(2)
East Asia	263	(38)
Defining the Realm	266	(1)
Natural Environments	266	(3)
Historical Geography	269	(1)
Early Cultural Geography	269	(1)
Dynastic China	269	(1)
Regions of the Realm	270	(2)
China Proper	271	(1)
Relative Location	272	(1)
Extent and Environment	272	(1)
Evolving China	273	(3)
A Century of Convulsion	274	(1)
A (Lost) War On Drugs and Its Aftermath	274	(1)
Nationalists and Communists	275	(1)
Japan in China	276	(1)
Communist China Arises	276	(1)
China's Human Geography	276	(3)
Political and Administrative Divisions	277	(2)
Population Issues	279	(1)
The Minorities	279	(1)
People and Places of China Proper	279	(8)
Northeast China Plain	280	(1)
North China Plain	280	(3)
Basins of the Chang/Yangzi	283	(1)
Basins of the Xi (West) and Pearl River	284	(1)
Xizang (Tibet)	285	(1)
Xinjiang	285	(2)
China's Pacific Rim: Emerging Region?	287	(3)
Geography of Development	288	(1)
Transforming the Economic Map	288	(2)
China's Pacific Rim Today	290	(2)
Guangdong Province and the Pearl River Estuary	290	(2)
The Other SEZs	292	(1)
Toward the Interior	292	(1)
China: Global Superpower?	292	(1)
Mongolia	293	(1)
The Jakota Triangle Region	293	(1)
Japan	293	(5)
Spatial Limitations	295	(1)
Modernization	295	(1)
Relative Location	295	(1)
Japan's Spatial Organization	296	(1)
Areal Functional Organization	297	(1)
Japan's Pacific Rim Prospects	297	(1)
Korea	298	(1)
Taiwan	299	(2)
Southeast Asia	301	(24)
Defining the Realm	304	(2)
Physical Geography	306	(1)
Population Geography	306	(2)
The Ethnic Mosaic	306	(1)
Immigrants	307	(1)
How the Political Map Evolved	308	(2)
The Colonial Imprint	308	(2)
Cultural-Geographic Legacies	310	(1)
Southeast Asia's Political Geography	310	(4)
The Boundaries	311	(1)
State Territorial Morphology	312	(2)
Regions of the Realm	314	(11)
Mainland Southeast Asia	314	(1)
Countries of Indochina	314	(2)
Protruded Thailand and Myanmar	316	(1)
Insular Southeast Asia	317	(1)
Malaysia	318	(1)
Singapore	319	(1)
Indonesia	320	(2)
Diversity in Unity	322	(1)
Transmigration and the Outer Islands	322	(1)
The Philippines	323	(2)
The Austral Realm	325	(14)
Defining the Realm	328	(1)
Land and Environment	328	(2)
Biogeography	329	(1)
Regions of the Realm	330	(9)
Australia	330	(1)
Distance	331	(1)
Core and Periphery	332	(1)
A Federal State	332	(1)
An Urban Culture	333	(1)
Economic Geography	334	(2)
Australia's Future	336	(1)
New Zealand	337	(1)
Human Spatial Organization	338	(1)
The Maori Factor and New Zealand's Future	338	(1)
The Pacific Realm	339
Defining the Realm	341	(1)
The Pacific Realm and Its Marine Geography	342	(2)
Regions of the Realm	344
Melanesia	345	(1)
Micronesia	346	(1)
Polynesia	347	(1)
A Final Caveat: Pacific and Antarctic	347
appendix A Using the Maps	1	(2)
appendix B Opportunities in Geography	3
Glossary	1	(1)
List of Maps and Figures	1	(1)
List of Photo Credits	1	(1)
Index	1