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9780471630845

Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia, 2nd Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471630845

  • ISBN10:

    0471630845

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $157.62

Summary

This Second Edition of Dragons and Tigers explores and illustrates conditions, events, problems, and trends of both larger regions and individual nations. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes. Nature-Society relations provide the foundation for social, economic, political, and environmental problems. This comprehensive text includes two new interludes on China and Japan.

Author Biography

Barbara A. Weightman is Professor of Geography at California State University, Fullerton.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Big Picture: Major Influences
Chapter 2: Environments and People
Chapter 3: Population, Agriculture, and Social Disparity
Chapter 4: Development, Urbanization, and Quality of Life
Chapter 5: South Asia: Creating Dilemmas of Diversity
Chapter 6: South Asia: Pakistan and the Himalayan States
Chapter 7: South Asia: India, Giant of the Subcontinent
Chapter 8: South Asia: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Islands of the Indian Ocean
Chapter 9: East Asia: Center of the World
Chapter 10: China: The Great Dragon Rising
Chapter 11: Japan: A Tiger Risen
Chapter 12: Korea and Taiwan: Tigers Rising
Chapter 13: Southeast Asia: Transition Among the Nagas
Chapter 14: Mainland Southeast Asia: Turmoil and Peace
Chapter 15: Insular Southeast Asia
 

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