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Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada, Second Edition by John C. Hudson (review)
Southeastern Geographer (2020)
  • Paul N. McDaniel, Kennesaw State University
Abstract
Regional geography presents a framework to explore ways in which the diverse thematic/systematic processes of physical and human geography construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct dynamic characteristics of particular places and regions. In the second edition of Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada, Professor John C. Hudson provides a welcome update to his original sweeping North America regional geography tome first published in 2002. In the preface, Hudson notes that “this book is a long-overdue revised edition of a regional geography of the United States and Canada developed over almost a half a century teaching the subject at Northwestern University” (p. xv). As Hudson observes, regional geography is a way of applying knowledge from various geography topics and interpreting their relevance for distinct regions. Learning to read the landscape about such processes in particular places is part of the process of gaining a sense of place about locales and the broader forces fostering regional change over time. As such, regional geography is an important tool in the cultivation of a well-rounded geography education...While much could be said about the book’s ten major regions, how does Across This Land represent, portray, and engage with the southeastern United States?
Keywords
  • Geography,
  • Geography Education,
  • North America,
  • Canada,
  • United States
Publication Date
Winter November 6, 2020
DOI
10.1353/sgo.2020.0031
Citation Information
Paul N. McDaniel. "Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada, Second Edition by John C. Hudson (review)" Southeastern Geographer Vol. 60 Iss. 4 (2020) p. 362 - 365 ISSN: 0038-366X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul-mcdaniel/32/