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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PREFACE THis book is designed for students at any stage during the five years or so after they have finished the usual course in elementary geography. The book has two marked characteristics: First, it is grounded on the economic basis expressed in the four terms Primary Production, Transportation, Manufacturing, and Consumption. Second, it com- bines a large number of stimulating problems with an interesting text that guides the pupils and helps them to work out the problems. The use of the economic basis is peculiarly effective in reawakening the interest of pupils who think that they have already had enough geography. Experience shows that it makes them realize the exist- ence of great realms which their previous work has not touched. By the time the average child has finished the sixth or seventh grade he has studied each of the continents twice. Further regional study is likely to be irksome, and a really new turn to the subject is needed. The study of commercial geography according to the common plan of treating one commodity after another gives a new approach, it is true. Unfortunately, after a few commodities have been discussed the mode of treatment almost inevitably becomes stereotyped; since no new principles are brought forward, the pupils lose interest at the most critical period. The method here employed attacks this difficulty by beginning with a geographical treatment of commodities in connection with the principles of primary production. Before this has time to become tiresome the field of transportation is taken up and a wholly new set of principles is introduced. A little later the field of manufacturing is introduced, giving a fresh point of view. Finally, the study of the field of consumption opens up another field, which maintains the student’s interest to the end of the course. Interest is also awakened and renewed by means of frequent ques- tions, exercises, and problems. These are the result of prolonged experiments with normal school students and with classes of children. The United States is treated extensively in the problems of every chapter, as well as in special chapters. The rest of the world is treated more briefly, but each continent receives a special exercise in one of the four problem chapters which form the final parts of the four sec- tions of the book. Thus material is provided whereby the pupils review the regional geography of the whole world, but in such a way that it seems to them like a new study, which in fact it is. 113

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