Europe: A Geographical Survey of the Continent

by Roy E.H. Mellor

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231047088
• ISBN13: 9780231047081
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 180 Pages

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Europe: A Geographical Survey of the Continent

In an age of growing supranationalism and internationalism, the old style regional geographies, with their country-by-country approach, are of limited value. Professor Mellor and Dr. Smith here make a problem-oriented approach to a changing Europe. Taking an over all view and treating Europe in its broad contintal dimension, they examine it as it really is: a landmass of remarkable diversity, comprising a complex of closely interrelated regions which are not in themselves immutable. Their study has a strong historical component, because Europoe's landscapes and their patterns - the mirror of human impact over a long period - are the product of changes in man's response through time to his enviroment. An important feature of the book is that, following on from the author's study of the genesis of the geograpy of Europe to the present day, it looks forward by analysing long term trends and indicates the lines which the continent's development may take in the future. --- excerpt from book's dustjacket