Economic geography /
John W. Alexander and Lay James Gibson.
- Second Edition
- New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1979
- xiv, 471 pages ; 27 cm.
Includes index.
Part One. Introduction -- Part Two. Subsistence economic activities -- Part Three. Commercial gathering of animals and plants -- Part Four. Commercial bioculture -- Part Five. Commercial mining -- Part Six. Commercial manufacturing -- Part Seven. Transportation and trade -- Part Eight. Tertiary economic activity -- Part Nine. Measurement, theory and planning.
This book adopted a deliberate strategy. Geography, like most disciplines, is going through a transition period in which increasing attention is being given to quantification and the use of statistical methods of analysis.