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THE authors have collaborated in an interesting experiment, and have wisely chosen for their first essay (for we presume it is a prelude to others) a region in which the facts of history are easily correlated with those of geography. In one sense it is only another account of the rise of the United States of America, but in a different sense it is a new story, for it tells the history of a century in the light of the place where it occurred. One can imagine oneself in America and watch the drama unfold. We are glad to see that the authors invert the old term and speak of a geographical history, for not only should geography precede history in course of study, but the term historical geography has fallen on evil days so far as school books are concerned. In most cases, except for a preliminary chapter and a map or two, it has no relation to geography.
North America during the Eighteenth Century: A Geographical History.
By T. Crockett B. C. Wallis. Pp. vi + 116. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1915.) Price 3s. net.
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B., R. North America during the Eighteenth Century: A Geographical History . Nature 96, 396 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096396a0
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