文档介绍：The Europeans
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Second Edition
The Europeans
A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment
Robert C. Ostergren
Mathias Le Bossé
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ostergren, Robert Clifford.
The Europeans : a geography of people, culture, and environment /
Robert C. Ostergren, Mathias Le Bossé. — 2nd ed.
p. cm. —(Texts in regional geography)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59385-384-6 (pbk.) — ISBN 978-1-60918-140-6 (hbk.)
1. Europe—Economic conditions. 2. Europe—Social conditions.
3. Geography—Europe. I. Le Bossé, Mathias. II. Title.
2011
940—dc22
2010052595
Preface to the Second Edition
While the anization remains physical environment; how they culturally,
unchanged, the second edition of this text socially, and politically define themselves;
features a number of changes and innova- and how they negotiate their