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A Geography of Pennsylvania

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This text was published in the 1990s and a lot has changed or progressed since then. I hope that a new edition comes along soon, and, given the advanced age of the editor, it will hopefully feature some major changes. While the chapters by Lewis, Abler, Zelinsky, and other well known Penn State geographers are every bit the exciting synthesis of the many themes of geography that makes our discipline great, others, especially those by Miller, are really old school - a relentless, diversion-less march through federal statistics about the economy, the population, the environment... - just an unimaginative, glorified list that reads like it was written by a nameless gov't employee in a cubicle inside the Beltway. Not that some of these chapters don't contain useful or interesting information and some good maps - there's just far too little "local color" or "thinking outside the box" which is what good geography can really contribute to our understanding of the world. So, let's hope for a major reworking and updating soon! I recommend purchasing with the new history text: Pennsylvania, A History of the Commonwealth to add the necessary spice.