Research Catalog

Title

A geography of mankind / [by] Jan O.M. Broek [and] John W. Webb. Cartographic design by Mei-Ling Hsu.

Author

Broek, Jan Otto Marius, 1904-1974.

Publication

New York, McGraw-Hill [©1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Webb, John W. (John Winter), 1926-2019
• Hsu, Mei-Ling, 1932-2009.

Description

xvi, 527 pages illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

Study of factors of ethnography and examination of geographical aspects, sociological aspects and cultural factors of the diversity of mankind - covers languages, religions, forms of economy, land settlement, living conditions, industrialization, urbanization, nomadism, population dynamics, migration, nutrition, etc. Maps and references.

Series Statement

McGraw-Hill series in geography

Uniform Title

McGraw-Hill series in geography

Subject

• Geography
• Geography
• geography
• Anthropogeografie
• ethnography
• geographical aspect
• sociological aspect
• cultural factor
• language
• religion
• economy
• land settlement
• living conditions
• industrialization
• urbanization
• nomad
• population dynamics
• migration
• nutrition
• ethnographie
• aspect géographique
• aspect sociologique
• facteur culturel
• langage
• économie
• établissement rural
• conditions de vie
• industrialisation
• urbanisation
• nomade
• dynamique de la population
• etnografía
• aspecto geográfico
• aspecto sociológico
• factor cultural
• lengua
• religión
• economía
• colonización rural
• condiciones de vida
• industrialización
• urbanización
• nómada
• dinámica poblacional
• migración
• nutrición

Genre/Form

• Textbooks
• Textbooks.
• map.
• reference.
• carte géographique.
• référence bibliographique.
• mapa.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• THE GEOGRAPHIC VIEWPOINT: The value of geography -- The purpose of geography -- The main concepts of geography -- NATURE AND CULTURE: Influences of the natural environment -- Environmentalism -- The nature of culture -- Acculturation -- The concept of culture in geography -- Perception of the environment -- The cultural landscape -- The distribution of mankind -- TECHNOLOGY: ORIGINS AND DIFFUSIONS: The old Stone Age (Paleolithic) -- The new Stone Age (Neolithic) -- The Middle East -- Ancient civilizations in the Americas -- China and the West -- The modern technological revolution -- The new transportation technology -- Power and the manufacturing revolution -- Development of modern agriculture -- RACE: BIOLOGICAL FACTS AND SOCIAL ATTITUDES: Geography and genetics -- Problems of classification -- Some physical traits -- Isolated peoples -- The main racial stocks -- Present distribution of the main races -- Race versus culture -- Racial tensions -- Interbreeding negroes in the United States -- Great Britain -- South Africa -- THE MOSAIC OF LANGUAGES: World distribution of languages -- The Indo-European linguistic family -- Bilingualism -- Race and language -- Language and culture -- Language and society -- Growth of the French language -- Language and physiography -- RELIGIONS: ORIGINS AND DISPERSALS: Influence of religion on way of life -- The variety of religions -- The main religions -- Cradlelands of the main religions -- Judaism -- Christianity -- The world of Islam -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- East Asian religions -- Other ideologies -- IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL ORDER: The state: territory and people/nationalities and nations in the European world -- Diversity in postcolonial Asian and African states -- CULTURE REALMS: Problems of classification and mapping -- Various proposals for culture realms -- Culture realms in the fifteenth century -- The Occidental culture realm -- The main Islamic realm -- The Indic realm -- The east Asian culture realm -- The southeast Asian culture realm -- The meso-African culture realm.
• FORMS OF ECONOMY: TRIBAL GATHERING, HUNTING, AND HERDING: A threefold division of societies -- Forms of economy -- Tribal gathering, hunting, fishing -- Reindeer herders of northern Eurasia -- Primitive man's impact on the Earth -- AGRICULTURE IN TRIBAL SOCIETIES, AND THE PLANTATION: Multiple origins of agriculture -- Shifting cultivation -- Livestock herding in Africa -- Agriculture on permanent fields -- Cash-crop farming -- The plantation -- LAND USE IN TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES: Low productivity per worker -- Intensive crop tillage -- Main crops -- Land use in East Asia -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Egypt and Sudan -- Pastoral nomadism -- AGRICULTURE IN MODERN SOCIETIES: General observations -- Land tenure -- Types of agriculture -- Trends in modern agriculture -- INDUSTRIAL NATIONS AND REGIONS: Factors of industrial location -- The United States iron and steel industry -- Main industrial regions -- An industrial region: South Wales -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The rich and the poor -- Paths toward economic progress -- FARM AND VILLAGE: Geographic approaches to rural settlements -- Western Europe -- Anglo-America -- Village and house types in East Asia -- The stilt house in Southeast Asia -- TOWNS AND CITIES: Site and situation -- The origin and spread of cities -- Cities in the modern era -- Four facets of contemporary cities -- EMERGING URBAN PATTERNS: The distribution of large metropolises -- The qualities and problems of metropolitan life -- THE DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH OF POPULATION: Population growth in the past -- Birth and death rates -- Case studies of population geography -- POPULATION MOVEMENTS: International migrations -- Internal migrations -- PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH: Controversial views -- Nutrition -- Infectious diseases -- Future food supply -- Beyond food.

LCCN

68011602

OCLC

• ocm00245135
• 245135
• SCSB-170632

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library