Abstract
THE area of which this book treats comprises the thirteen southern States of the United States of America, from Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to Texas and Oklahoma. This may be regarded as a distinctive human and cultural region although it embraces several physical units of distinctive character. Dr. Vance traces the relation between man and his environment, keeping his study to broad issues with a commendable absence of mere details of location and localised activity. He shows how the different phases in the peopling of his area still have their reflections in conditions to-day. The heritage of the frontier zone is submerged but not lost in the later plantation phase, while superimposed on these are newer industrial and agricultural interests.
Human Geography of the South: a Study in Regional Resources and Human Adequacy.
By Dr. Rupert B. Vance. (University of North Carolina Social Study Series.) Pp. xiv + 596. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Caroline Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1932.) 24s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 132, 561 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132561b0
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