Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE NEW GEOGRAPHY x. Regional rather than political geography.— The first regional treatment, really, is home geography because this demands an intimate study, in some well-defined geographical unit, of man and his surroundings. Any study is regional in character which involves a careful study of a portion of the earth, uniform in regard to certain features like climate, topography, vegetation, resources, and occupations. According to the conception of geography which we have already sought to establish, the story of man's control of different regions in the interest of world needs must be a constant factor throughout the study of the subject. In a region of homogeneity, like purposes dominate people, and cooperation is likely to follow when people are bound together by the ties of common interests. By means of the regional method of study, the opportunity is afforded to discard the cut-and-dried outline of position, coastline, surface, climate, etc., and that consequent mechanical presentation, in which no account is given of the significance of each factor in relation to the other factors making up the region's characteristics. This regional method of study is both physiographic and economic, in proportion as it emphasizes the physiography of the section under consideration and the human aspects or the commercial and industrial activities of men. Political boundaries are not observed in the regional treatment. This regional treatment of geography, using the problem method of approach, is best illustrated by a recent publication of the Massachusetts Board of Education, entitled "The Teachers' Manual of Geography for Grades VII and VIII." (See Appendix A., pp. 263-278). This manual is noted for the emphasis it places on regional geography. In respect to aim...