Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

The Contrast between Asia and Australia 323 Fig. 188. Loading coal at Newcastle, in New South Wales. The derrick picks up the body of the coal car on the track, swings it over to the ship, and empties it into the hold. Sydney and Newcastle are the ports from which Australian coal is shipped throughout the South Pacific region. Position of Asia and Australia in production and commerce. The trade of the United States with Australia and Asia is increas- ing faster than with any other parts of the world (pages 294, 295). Both continents are relatively undeveloped, Australia because it is new and sparsely settled, Asia because its people, as a rule, have not made much progress in modern methods of industry, commerce, and government. Both continents offer enormous possibilities: Asia because it contains a vast number of industrious inhabitants whose ac- tivities in both production and consumption can be greatly stimulated ; Australia because it contains some of the world’s most competent and progressive people, who are determined that newcomers to their con- tinent shall be of the same kind. Asia and Australia stand in an intermediate group among the con- tinents. Europe and North America are highly developed and carry on much manufacturing. They are coming more and more to con- sume the food and the raw materials that they produce, and to call for more from other regions. In Africa and South America commerce and industry are limited because in large areas, although by no means everywhere. the people have the tropical inertia which hinders them

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