The European culture area : a systematic geography.: a systematic geography. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Murphy, Alexander B, 1954-; Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G, 1938-2003; Bychkova Jordan, Bella
• Contents: <span style="font-weight:bold;">List of Illustrations <span style="font-weight:bold;">Preface <span style="font-weight:bold;">A Note about Place Names <span style="font-weight:bold;">1 What and Where Is Europe? Europe as a Physical Entity Europe as a Human Entity <span style="font-style:italic;">Socioeconomic Characteristics <span style="font-style:italic;">Europe and the Wider World This Book’s Approach Why Study Europe? Sources and Suggested Readings <span style="font-weight:bold;">2 The Physical Environment Europe’s Geomorphology and Hydrogeography <span style="font-style:italic;">Mountains <span style="font-style:italic;">Hills <span style="font-style:italic;">Plains <span style="font-style:italic;">Hydrogeography Europe’s Climate <span style="font-style:italic;">Marine West Coast <span style="font-style:italic;">Mediterranean <span style="font-style:italic;">Humid Continental <span style="font-style:italic;">Minor Climate Types Vegetation and Soils <span style="font-style:italic;">Forests <span style="font-style:italic;">Treeless Areas <span style="font-style:italic;">Soils Human Alteration of the Environment <span style="font-style:italic;">Human Modification of Lands and Waters <span style="font-style:italic;">The Special Case of the Netherlands <span style="font-style:italic;">Human Modification of the Atmosphere <span style="font-style:italic;">Human Impacts on Forests Environmentalism Sources and Suggested Readings <span style="font-weight:bold;">3 Demography Geogenetics Population Distribution and Density Population Growth Rates <span style="font-style:italic;">Natural Increase <span style="font-style:italic;">Migration Major Influences on Population Geography <span style="font-style:italic;">Environmental Influences <span style="font-style:italic;">Socioeconomic and Political Influences <span style="font-style:italic;">Land-use and Population Policies Scale Differences Sources and Suggested Readings <span style="font-weight:bold;">4 The Pattern of Languages Languages and Language Families The Diffusion of Indo-European Tongues into Europe The Three Major Subfamilies of Indo-European <span style="font-style:italic;">Romance Languages <span style="font-style:italic;">Germanic Languages <span style="font-style:italic;">The Special Case of English <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-weight:bold;">5 The Geography of Religion Pre-Christian Europe Diffusion of Christianity Christian Fragmentation <span style="font-style:italic;">The Roman Catholic Realm <span style="font-style:italic;">Pilgrimages <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-style:italic;">Islam <span style="font-style:italic;">Judaism Conclusion Sources and Suggested Readings <span style="font-weight:bold;">6 The European State System The Pattern of States The Emergence of the European State Pattern The Twentieth-Century European State Case Studies <span style="font-style:italic;">France: The Quintessential Unitary State <span style="font-style:italic;">Germany: Federalism in the European Core <span style="font-style:italic;">The United Kingdom: Core–Periphery Tensions <span style="font-style:italic;">Italy: Roman Legacy <span style="font-style:italic;">Spain: A Multiethnic State <span style="font-style:italic;">Switzerland and Belgium: Astride a Language Divide <span style="font-style:italic;">Fragmentation in the Balkans: Yugoslavia and Its Successor States <span style="font-style:italic;">Russia and the Former Soviet Union <span style="font-style:italic;">Ukraine: From Border Province to Independent State Challenges to the Territorial State <span style="font-style:italic;">The Rise of the European Union <span style="font-style:italic;">Other Supranational Engagements Sources and Suggested Readings <span style="font-weight:bold;">7 Land and Life in the Rural Sector Traditional Agriculture <span style="font-style:italic;">Mediterranean Agriculture <span style="font-style:italic;">Three-Field <span style="font-style:italic;">Farming <span style="font-style:italic;">Hardscrabble Herder-Farmers <span style="font-style:italic;">Shifting Cultivation in the North <span style="font-style:italic;">Nomadic Herding Traditional Land Divisions and Settlement Characteristics New Crop Introductions Modern Agricultural Systems <span style="font-style:italic;">Market Gardening <span style="font-style:italic;">Dairying <span style="font-style:italic;">Cattle and Hog Raising <span style="font-style:italic;">Sheep Raising <span style="font-style:italic;">Cash Grain Farming <span style="font-style:italic;">Reindeer Ranching <span style="font-style:italic;">Fishing and Fish Farming Land Tenure in the M
• Edition: Seventh edition
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 914; Political Science: World / European; Political Science: Geopolitics; Europe -- Geography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538127605
• Related ISBNs: 9781538127599
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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