Historical Geography of Europe 1800Ö1914

This book concludes Professor Pounds' magisterial survey of the historical geography of Europe. Dealing with the period of widespread industrialisation, the book surveys certain key themes in the geography of Europe as they developed prior to the First World War. The changing political face of the continent, resource position, demographic structure and patterns of migration are assessed in detail, and the core of the book consists of four chapters on agriculture and manufacturing, areas of rapid but geographically varied change. Technological development and increasing productivity were combined with improvements in communication, permitting a far greater degree of regional specialisation and concentration of industry. The growing interdependence of the continent, a function of the improvements in communication, is a theme of these chapters and the book concludes with an overall survey of the population, production and trade of Europe when, in August 1914, the lights began to go out on the old order of things.Pounds, Norman J. is the author of 'Historical Geography of Europe 1800Ö1914' with ISBN 9780521265744 and ISBN 0521265746.