Abstract
THE title of this book refers to the sixteen States in the south-east of America from Delaware and Maryland westward to Oklahoma and Texas. This area covers a great deal more than the plains of the south-east and the cotton belt since it embraces much of the Appalachian uplands, but is nevertheless a fairly well-defined region on economic and cultural grounds. Mr. Parkins attempts to give a survey of this area leading from physical factors and historical records to the present geographical and economic conditions. In short, he is concerned with an inter pretation of life as it exists to-day, in a region that is primarily agricultural but in which agriculture is changing in aspect and intensity and where mining and manufactures are beginning to play an important part. The book, which is well documented and has abundant maps and illustrations, is a valuable con tribution to the geography of the United States, and is, moreover, a good example of geographical reasoning.
The South
Its Economic-Geographic Development. By A. E. Parkins. Pp. ix + 528. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1938.) 25s. net.
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B., R. Geography and Travel. Nature 143, 422 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143422c0
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