Abstract
SOUTH AMERICA offers great scope for economic development from the European point of view. Too much that is written about that continent has a commercial bias or a political colouring. Thus a purely objective study has much value to students. The present volume is nominally a second edition, but in reality is largely a new book. The survey has been done with much care, with due emphasis on the physical and climatic background, which explains much of the economic geography of the South American republics. Most of them are exporters of raw materials and food and importers of manufactured goods, and thus are of great importance to industrialized lancls. Lack of population and undeveloped power resources so far restrict manufacturing activity, but even this is tending to develop, and in time to come South America may be more self-contained than at present.
Economic Geography of South America
By Prof. R. H. Whitbeck Prof. Frank E. Williams, assisted by Prof. William F. Christians. (McGraw-Hill Series in Geography.) Third edition. Pp. xi + 469. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 24s. 6d.
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Economic Geography of South America. Nature 147, 728 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147728d0
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