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Books ReceivedSource: Economic Geography, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), pp. 463-464Published by: Clark UniversityStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/142830 .
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irritation is that the attributions are not always the most pertinent and imply a failure on the part of the author to thoroughly digest the literature. On page 63, for example: "Another modification of Thiinen's scheme . . . is dis- tortion along transportation lines . . and Dunn points out quite logically that the mode of transportation as well as distance is an im- portant determinant of transport cost." Von Thiinen himself made this point 128 years before Dunn. To borrow an expression, if the frontiers are to be manned let the patrimony be properly organized. Therefore, the main value of Gregor's book is as a guide to a wide, but oddly selected, range of literature.
When read in conjunction, the two books under review pose an interesting problem. Geographers appear to be giving relatively little attention to the role of the physical en- vironment, whereas this forms the focus of interest for two eminent agriculturists. To some extent, this may be explained by differences of geographical scale, in that for a world synoptic view, climate and terrain are clearly of utmost importance; this is less true for more localized studies of agricultural distributions. But per- haps there is a second reason. Though writing on the geography of agriculture, Gregor has concentrated almost exclusively on the work of geographers, who have perhaps overreacted to the postulates of environmental determinism and now regard explanations based on the phys- ical environment as vaguely "dirty." Thus, whereas Duckham and Masefield refer to the work of geographers, one searches vainly in Geography of Agriculture for reference to Losch, Isard, and Ponsard among locational theoreticians, sociological investigators like Dovring, and agricultural economists such as Shultz and Heady. Perhaps the fundamental weakness of Gregor's book is that it is much too short for what has been attempted, or that the field ought to have been much more rig- orously limited.
MICHAEL CHISHOLMI
Department of Geography University of Bristol
BOOKS RECEIVED
Abler, Ronald, John S. Adams and Peter Gould. Spatial Organization: The View of the World. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1971. xix, 587. The geographical viewpoint beautifully rewritten and re- ordered around the theme of human spa- tial behavior. Here, at last, is an intro- ductory text of which geographers can be proud.
Applebaum, William. Hardware Retailing Stra- tegy Cases. Indianapolis: Russell R. Muel-
irritation is that the attributions are not always the most pertinent and imply a failure on the part of the author to thoroughly digest the literature. On page 63, for example: "Another modification of Thiinen's scheme . . . is dis- tortion along transportation lines . . and Dunn points out quite logically that the mode of transportation as well as distance is an im- portant determinant of transport cost." Von Thiinen himself made this point 128 years before Dunn. To borrow an expression, if the frontiers are to be manned let the patrimony be properly organized. Therefore, the main value of Gregor's book is as a guide to a wide, but oddly selected, range of literature.
When read in conjunction, the two books under review pose an interesting problem. Geographers appear to be giving relatively little attention to the role of the physical en- vironment, whereas this forms the focus of interest for two eminent agriculturists. To some extent, this may be explained by differences of geographical scale, in that for a world synoptic view, climate and terrain are clearly of utmost importance; this is less true for more localized studies of agricultural distributions. But per- haps there is a second reason. Though writing on the geography of agriculture, Gregor has concentrated almost exclusively on the work of geographers, who have perhaps overreacted to the postulates of environmental determinism and now regard explanations based on the phys- ical environment as vaguely "dirty." Thus, whereas Duckham and Masefield refer to the work of geographers, one searches vainly in Geography of Agriculture for reference to Losch, Isard, and Ponsard among locational theoreticians, sociological investigators like Dovring, and agricultural economists such as Shultz and Heady. Perhaps the fundamental weakness of Gregor's book is that it is much too short for what has been attempted, or that the field ought to have been much more rig- orously limited.
MICHAEL CHISHOLMI
Department of Geography University of Bristol
BOOKS RECEIVED
Abler, Ronald, John S. Adams and Peter Gould. Spatial Organization: The View of the World. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1971. xix, 587. The geographical viewpoint beautifully rewritten and re- ordered around the theme of human spa- tial behavior. Here, at last, is an intro- ductory text of which geographers can be proud.
Applebaum, William. Hardware Retailing Stra- tegy Cases. Indianapolis: Russell R. Muel-
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ler Retail Hardware Research Foundation, 1971. xiv, 103.
Apthorpe, Raymond (ed.) People Planning and Development Studies: Some Reflec- tions on Social Planning. London: Frank Cass, 1970. viii, 168. £2.25.
Bacon, Philip (ed.) Focus on Geography: Key Concepts and Teaching Strategies. Wash- ington: National Council for the Social Studies, 1970. xvii, 437. $7.00 cloth, $5.50 paper. Part I, "Concepts and Techniques," covers the major fields within cultural and economic geography. Part II covers teach- ing and learning.
Branch, Melville C. Comprehensive Urban Planning: A Selective Annotated Bibliog- raphy with Related Materials. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1970. 480. $20.00.
Clarke, John I. Population Geography and the Developing Countries. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1971. xiii, 282. £2.25 cloth, £1.75 paper. Macroscopic view of patterns of
population in six major world regions. Clawson, Marion, Hans H. Landsberg and Lyle
T. Alexander. The Agriculture Potential of the Middle East. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1971. xvii, 312. $19.50. Contains three parts on natural resources, agricultural organization and
development potential. Coleman, Richard P. and Bernice L. Neugarten.
Social Status in the City. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1971. xiv, 320. $9.75. Analysis of status structure of Kansas City.
Dewdney, John C. A Geography of the Soviet Union. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1971. xvi, 169. £2.00 cloth, £1.50 paper.
Durrenberger, Robert W. Geographical Re- search and Writing. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1971. ix, 246. A guide to assist students doing research and writing in the field of geography.
Eidt, Robert C. Pioneer Settlement in North- east Argentina. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. xvi, 277. $15.00.
Gentilcore, R. Louis (ed.) Geographical Ap- proaches to Canadian Problems: A Selec- tion of Readings. Scarborough: Prentice- Hall of Canada, 1971. 235. Reprinted readings on population, economy, cities, and politics with brief introductions to each section.
Girard, Jacques. Geographie de l'Industrie Manufacturiere du Quebec. Quebec: Min- istere de l'Industrie et du Commerce, 1970. 2 vols.
Goldstein, Jon H. Competition for Wetlands in the Midwest: An Economic Analysis. Resources for the Future, Inc. Distributed
ler Retail Hardware Research Foundation, 1971. xiv, 103.
Apthorpe, Raymond (ed.) People Planning and Development Studies: Some Reflec- tions on Social Planning. London: Frank Cass, 1970. viii, 168. £2.25.
Bacon, Philip (ed.) Focus on Geography: Key Concepts and Teaching Strategies. Wash- ington: National Council for the Social Studies, 1970. xvii, 437. $7.00 cloth, $5.50 paper. Part I, "Concepts and Techniques," covers the major fields within cultural and economic geography. Part II covers teach- ing and learning.
Branch, Melville C. Comprehensive Urban Planning: A Selective Annotated Bibliog- raphy with Related Materials. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1970. 480. $20.00.
Clarke, John I. Population Geography and the Developing Countries. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1971. xiii, 282. £2.25 cloth, £1.75 paper. Macroscopic view of patterns of
population in six major world regions. Clawson, Marion, Hans H. Landsberg and Lyle
T. Alexander. The Agriculture Potential of the Middle East. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1971. xvii, 312. $19.50. Contains three parts on natural resources, agricultural organization and
development potential. Coleman, Richard P. and Bernice L. Neugarten.
Social Status in the City. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1971. xiv, 320. $9.75. Analysis of status structure of Kansas City.
Dewdney, John C. A Geography of the Soviet Union. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1971. xvi, 169. £2.00 cloth, £1.50 paper.
Durrenberger, Robert W. Geographical Re- search and Writing. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1971. ix, 246. A guide to assist students doing research and writing in the field of geography.
Eidt, Robert C. Pioneer Settlement in North- east Argentina. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. xvi, 277. $15.00.
Gentilcore, R. Louis (ed.) Geographical Ap- proaches to Canadian Problems: A Selec- tion of Readings. Scarborough: Prentice- Hall of Canada, 1971. 235. Reprinted readings on population, economy, cities, and politics with brief introductions to each section.
Girard, Jacques. Geographie de l'Industrie Manufacturiere du Quebec. Quebec: Min- istere de l'Industrie et du Commerce, 1970. 2 vols.
Goldstein, Jon H. Competition for Wetlands in the Midwest: An Economic Analysis. Resources for the Future, Inc. Distributed
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by Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. xiv, 105. $3.50. Conflict in utilization of wetlands of Canadian Prairie Provinces and the pothole country of the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Groves, Paul A. Towards a Typology of Intra- metropolitan Manufacturing Location: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area. University of Hull, Occasional Papers in Geography, No. 16, 1971.
Gupta, P. Sen. Census of India. Vol. I, Census Atlas, pt. 9, New Delhi, 1970. xiii, 623. Plates (169) on physical conditions, dem-
ographic structure, economic and socio- cultural features.
Guyol, Nathaniel B. Energy in the Perspective of Geography. Foundations of Economic Geography Series. Englewood Cliffs: Pren- tice-Hall, Inc., 1971. xv, 156.
Hay, Alan M. and Robert H. T. Smith. Inter- regional Trade and Money Flows in Ni- geria, 1964. Published for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research. Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1970. xiv, 245. $12.00.
James, Edward. America Against Poverty. Lon- don: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. xii, 127.
Johnson, Allen W. Sharecroppers of the Ser- tago: Economics and Dependence on a Brazilian Plantation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971. 153. $6.95.
Klausner, Samuel Z. On Man in His Environ- ment: Social Scientific Foundations for Re- search and Policy. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass Inc., 1971. xiv, 224. $8.50. Uses a
sociological approach rather than physical environmental analysis.
Mendras, Henri. The Vanishing Peasant: In- novation and Change in French Agricul- ture. Trans. Jean Lerner. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1970. 289. $8.95. To learn how to help peasants adapt themselves to industrial civilization, the example of West- ern peasants, who have already made this transition, is examined.
Moynihan, Daniel P. (ed.) Toward a National Urban Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1970. xi, 348. $7.95. Includes papers on urban transport, urban land use changes, pollution, migration to cities, racial segre-
gation, poverty, social planning, urban growth strategies and new towns.
Ross, Eric. Beyond the River and the Bay: Some Observations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. xiii, 190. A reconstruction of the early nine- teenth-century geography of the Canadian Northwest, based on an imaginary manu- script report sketching the prospects for immigration by Scottish highlanders.
Sennet, Richard. Families Against the City: Mid- dle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890. Cambridge: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 1970. x, 258. $8.50. Micro study of family life among Union Park middle class people at the time when massive cities were taking form.
Shepard, Paul and Daniel McKinley (eds.) Environmental: Essays on the Planet as a Home. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971. x, 308. $4.50. paper. Reprinted es- says, good bibliography.
Smith, David M. Industrial Location: An Eco- nomic Geographical Analysis. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1971. xii, 553. $14.95. Six parts on location factors, ap- proaches to theory and models, a syn- thesis of location theory, empirical appli- cations, alternative approaches and policy questions make up this much needed book.
Schwind, Paul J. Migration and Regional Devel- opment in the United States 1950-1960. University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper No. 133, 1971. x, 170. $4.50.
University of Victoria, Department of Geog- raphy. Resources, .Recreation, and Re- search. Vol. 3 of Western Geographical Series. Victoria: University of Victoria, Department of Geography, 1971. 182. $4.00. Fourteen papers presented at the Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers, 1970.
Ward, David. Cities and Immigrants: A Geog- raphy of Change in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xv, 164. $6.75 cloth, $2.95 paper.
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