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Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition.

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Brett McGillivray. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition, 2nd ed. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 282 pages. $95.00 cloth.

Regional geography, the analysis of a defined area's physical and human characteristics, has a long tradition within geography. But in the aftermath of the discipline's so-called Quantitative Revolution in the late 1950s and early '60s it fell into disrepute for being too descriptive. As a consequence, regional geography courses became relatively rare on U.S. college campuses. Other social scientists stepped into this vacuum and area studies centers were created to undertake work previously done by human geographers. Against this background it was refreshing to read Brett McGillivray's Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition. This introductory college-level text provides a comprehensive portrait of Canada's third most populous province. The second edition, published in fall 2005, attests to the book's popularity and to regional geography's vitality north of the...

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