Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
- ISBN-10
- 1421437589
- ISBN-13
- 9781421437583
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 520
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-11
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Author
- John C. Hudson
Description
Incorporating the latest available population and economic data, this thoroughly updated edition includes; reflections on new developments, such as resource schemes, Native governments in Atlantic Canada, and the role of climate change in the Arctic; a new section focused on the US Pacific insular territories west of Hawaii; evolving views of oil and gas production resulting from the introduction of hydraulic fracturing; revised text and maps involving agricultural production based on the 2017 Census of Agriculture; current place names; more than 130 photographsThe most extensive regional geography of the North American continent on the market, Hudson's Across This Land will continue as the standard text in geography courses dealing with Canada and the United States, as well as a popular reference work for scholars, students, and lay readers.
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- 2002-03
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