Table of Contents

List of Figures.

Translator's Preface.

Introduction.

Part I: The Regional Approach: .

1. The Development of Regional Studies.

2. The Regional Approach.

3. Methods of Regionalization.

Part II: Factors of the Division and of the Regional Organization of Space: .

4. The Ecological Foundations of Regional Geography.

5. The Economic Foundations of Regional Geography.

6. The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Regional Geography.

7. Regional Consciousness and Identity.

8. The Region and Political Life.

Part III: The Forms and the Evolution of Regional Organization:.

9. The Evolution of Forms of Regional Organization, Societies within a State.

10. The Regional Organization of Traditional Societies.

11. Forms of Regional Organization Stemming from the Industrial Revolution.

12. Globalization and the New Territorial Order.

Conclusion.

Index.

About the Author

Paul Claval is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne. He is the author of over twenty texts spanning human, social, economic and cultural geography. He is regarded as France's leading contributor to the history and philosophy of geographical thought and its relationship to the natural and social sciences generally.