Asm 05/07/24
THE FIFTH edition of this book differs to a con siderable extent from the previous one. Only in Chapters 6, 13, 14, 17. and 30 have the changes been minor All other chapters needed to be brought up to date and considerable re writing and reorganization proved to be de- sirable The present Chapter 1 was considered to be a better introduction to the subject matter of the book Chapter 19 was writt…
Asm 03/07/24
World economic geography is taking on new sig- nificance in the modern age Premodern man's concern with situation and habitat was mainly local, but modern man's concern is more and more world- wide. The pressure of world communism for he- gemony, the pressure exerted by underdeveloped societies to develop their own political and eco- nomic overlordship, the pressure of dynamic science and techn…
that it did? In other words, while the professional historian fre quently is engaged in judging the credibility of a witness, in at- tempting to gauge the hias that will he present in the account of a contemporary involved in the events he describes, the lay reader more often is concerned with assessing the credibility of a printed record, of one book's account against another's. Both levels of…
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