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Produktbild: The European Culture Area

The European Culture Area A Systematic Geography

Aus der Reihe Changing Regions in a Global Context: New Perspectives in Regional Geography Series

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.2020

Abbildungen

202 Color Illustrations, 1 Tables

Verlag

Rowman & Littlefield

Seitenzahl

464

Maße (L/B/H)

25,3/17,9/0,6 cm

Gewicht

106 g

Auflage

7th edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5381-2759-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.2020

Abbildungen

202 Color Illustrations, 1 Tables

Verlag

Rowman & Littlefield

Seitenzahl

464

Maße (L/B/H)

25,3/17,9/0,6 cm

Gewicht

106 g

Auflage

7th edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5381-2759-9

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The European Culture Area

  • List of Illustrations
    Preface
    A Note about Place Names
    1 What and Where Is Europe?
    Europe as a Physical Entity
    Europe as a Human Entity
    Socioeconomic Characteristics
    Europe and the Wider World
    This Book's Approach
    Why Study Europe?
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    2 The Physical Environment
    Europe's Geomorphology and Hydrogeography
    Mountains
    Hills
    Plains
    Hydrogeography
    Europe's Climate
    Marine West Coast
    Mediterranean
    Humid Continental
    Minor Climate Types
    Vegetation and Soils
    Forests
    Treeless Areas
    Soils
    Human Alteration of the Environment
    Human Modification of Lands and Waters
    The Special Case of the Netherlands
    Human Modification of the Atmosphere
    Human Impacts on Forests
    Environmentalism
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    3 Demography
    Geogenetics
    Population Distribution and Density
    Population Growth Rates
    Natural Increase
    Migration
    Major Influences on Population Geography
    Environmental Influences
    Socioeconomic and Political Influences
    Land-use and Population Policies
    Scale Differences
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    4 The Pattern of Languages
    Languages and Language Families
    The Diffusion of Indo-European
    Tongues into Europe
    The Three Major Subfamilies of Indo-European
    Romance Languages
    Germanic Languages
    The Special Case of English
    Slavic Languages
    Other Indo-European
    Languages
    Non-Indo-
    European
    Languages
    Linguistic Decline and Revival
    Multilingualism
    The Disconnect Between Linguistic and Political Boundaries
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    5 The Geography of Religion
    Pre-Christian
    Europe
    Diffusion of Christianity
    Christian Fragmentation
    The Roman Catholic Realm
    Pilgrimages
    Winds of Change
    The Protestant Realm
    The Eastern Orthodox Realm
    The East-West Divide
    Uniate and Armenian Churches
    Dechristianization
    Sects and Cults
    Non-Christian
    Minorities
    Islam
    Judaism
    Conclusion
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    6 The European State System
    The Pattern of States
    The Emergence of the European State Pattern
    The Twentieth-Century
    European State
    Case Studies
    France: The Quintessential Unitary State
    Germany: Federalism in the European Core
    The United Kingdom: Core-Periphery Tensions
    Italy: Roman Legacy
    Spain: A Multiethnic State
    Switzerland and Belgium: Astride a Language Divide
    Fragmentation in the Balkans: Yugoslavia and Its Successor States
    Russia and the Former Soviet Union
    Ukraine: From Border Province to Independent State
    Challenges to the Territorial State
    The Rise of the European Union
    Other Supranational Engagements
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    7 Land and Life in the Rural Sector
    Traditional Agriculture
    Mediterranean Agriculture
    Three-Field
    Farming
    Hardscrabble Herder-Farmers
    Shifting Cultivation in the North
    Nomadic Herding
    Traditional Land Divisions and Settlement Characteristics
    New Crop Introductions
    Modern Agricultural Systems
    Market Gardening
    Dairying
    Cattle and Hog Raising
    Sheep Raising
    Cash Grain Farming
    Reindeer Ranching
    Fishing and Fish Farming
    Land Tenure in the Modern Era
    Production Patterns in the Modern Era
    Rural Depopulation
    Preserving Rural Landscapes
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    8 Manufacturing and Industry
    Historical Overview (Pre-Eighteenth Century)
    Traditional Manufacturing Systems
    The Industrial Revolution
    Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
    Diffusion beyond the Coalfields
    Impacts of Industrialization
    Social Impacts
    Environmental Impacts
    Transportation Innovations and Their Significance
    Roads
    Railroads
    Waterways
    Pipelines
    Air Transport
    Deindustrialization
    Industrial Rejuvenation
    Contemporary Patterns
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    9 The Postindustrial Economy and the Quest for European Integration
    The Nature of Europe's Service and Information Economy
    Communications
    Energy Production
    Tourism
    Retailing and Governmental/Social Services
    The Quaternary Sector
    The Trajectory of European Integration
    Economic Impacts of Integration
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    10 The European City
    The Rise of the European City
    The Medieval City
    City Sites
    City Attributes
    Medieval Urban Morphology
    Renaissance-Baroque Urban Development (1500-1800)
    The Industrial City
    Characteristics of the Mid-Twentieth-
    Century
    European City
    The Late/Postindustrial European City
    The Preindustrial Core
    The Preindustrial Periphery
    The Industrial Suburbs
    The Postindustrial Suburbs
    Regional Variations
    The Modern Urban Pattern
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    11 Europe's Changing Social and Ethnic Geography
    Patterns of Social Well-Being
    Health
    Employment
    Education
    The Role of Women
    Ethno-Cultural
    Issues
    Recent Migration Streams
    The Traditional Social Contract in Transition
    Macroeconomic Challenges
    The Demographic Challenge
    The Immigration Challenge
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    12 European Integration: Retrospect and Prospect
    Impetuses for Integration
    Globalization
    Geopolitics
    External Relations
    Cross-border
    Interaction
    The Economy
    The "Irrationality" of the Pattern of States
    Impetuses for Fragmentation
    Globalization
    Geopolitics
    Nationalism
    Bureaucratization
    Differences over Widening and Deepening
    Ethno-regionalism
    Where from Here?
    Sources and Suggested Readings
    Glossary
    Index
    About the Authors