Excerpt from Commercial Geography
The object of this text is the exposition of the principles of commercial geography as based on a knowledge of its more important facts. It is regarded as necessary and advantageous to treat products and regions in a single volume, if perspective is observed and if both products and regions are made contributory to the unfolding of principles. To this end minor commodities and regions must surrender their place to facts of larger meaning.
Part I offers an inductive approach to principles which are formally stated in Chapter VI. The author holds it wise to avoid an introductory statement of abstract relations, and has therefore chosen five products or staples of world-wide interest, treating them broadly as world products and as typical of all others in the geographic principles involved. No materials of commerce are more significant in themselves, or in their relations, than wheat, cotton, cattle, iron, and coal.
Part II relates to the United States and opens with a brief review of physical features. To the usual account of plant, animal, and mineral substances, a chapter on water is added. This is amply justified by the importance which water has now assumed as a part of our natural resources. The chapters on concentration of industry, centers of general industry, transportation, communication, and government relations afford a return to vital principles, unfolding them more fully than was possible in Chapter VI, and offering considerations which are of universal application, though here developed in special reference to our own country.
Part III deals with foreign countries. Canada is taken first, owing to its close geographic and commercial relations to the United States. It is followed by the chapters on the great industrial and trading nations of western Europe.
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