
Alexander B. Murphy is past president of the AAG and a member of the geography faculty at the University of Oregon, where he long held the James F. and Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea.
This is a terrific text. A core value of its effective approach is that to understand the making of Europe into a discernible region by culture, we must reflect upon Europe's broad range of ideological, social, and materialist difference--expressed territorially, institutionally, and systemically. Its respect for historical structure makes the book as valuable to students of history as to students of human geography.
--Alex G. Papadopoulos, DePaul UniversityThis classic work of regional synthesis in the cultural-historical tradition of geography also thoroughly explores Europe's enormous political, economic, and socio-cultural shifts. The seventh edition is just as indispensable to accompany an undergraduate course as ever.
--Corey Johnson, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro