Download or read book An Economic Geography of the British Empire (Classic Reprint) written by Chas Bruno Thurston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Economic Geography of the British Empire The importance of the economic aspect of geo graphical science, demanding not only a record of the various features and phenomena of the earth's surface, but also an understanding of their relation to one another and more especially of their control of human life and activity, is now fully recognised, and this book attempts to work out on these lines the geography of those parts of the world occupied or controlled by the British people. For this purpose the British Empire affords a field of study almost as Wide as the world itself, for it presents physical features, climates, plants, animals and peoples of every type. The widely different modes of life and even the mental outlook of the Canadian farmer, the Australian squatter, the South African miner, the Indian ryot, the South Sea islander and the town-dweller of the mother country are Very largely the result of their geographical environment; and the causes and pos sible solutions of many Imperial problems cannot be clearly understood Without a knowledge 'of the geographical conditions underlying them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.