Excerpt from Human Geography of the South: A Study in Regional Resources, and Human Adequacy
Regionalism and the new geography afford a point of vantage from which this volume views the American South as a test of human adequacy to master the resources of its region and to develop thereon a distinctive and competent culture.
However much he would have enjoyed it, the author has not written a regional sociology of the South. Nor does he contend that the relation of the resources of a region to the cultural adequacy of its population yet forms the subject matter of human geography. At such a point, however, converge the lines of force from geography, ecology, human biology, economics, and technology. Within this scaffolding of nature and culture has been erected the architecture of a region. With many a side glance at the historical development, this volume attempts to give a synthetic treatment of the interaction of men and nature in the American South.
Acknowledgment is due first of all to the multitude of scholars whose monographs, bulletins, and journal articles have been consulted in this treatment. They will be found cited in footnotes and bibliography. For careful reading of the manuscript and many helpful criticisms I am indebted to Dr. Ulrich B. Phillips of Yale, Dr. Erich W. Zimmermann, Professor of Economics and Resources, University of North Carolina, Dr. A. N. J. den Hollander, Geographer, University of Amsterdam, and Dr. Howard W. Odum, Director, Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, and the Southern Regional Study of the Social Science Research Council. Possibly more than the author realizes the volume owes its style of approach to many stimulating contacts with Dr. Odum. Nor should the give and take with graduate seminars in Social Demography and Regional Sociology fail of acknowledgment. The arduous labors of editorial supervision have been shared by Dr. Katharine Jocher, while the manuscript has been read and the bibliography carefully checked by Rheba Usher Vance.
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