The best-selling book in the World Regional Geography market, Regions provides general readers with up-to-date information on various topics around the world. It delivers the authors' authoritative content, outstanding cartography, currency, and comprehensive coverage, in a technology-rich package. The 14^th edition reflects major developments in the world as well as in the discipline. These range from the collapse of Russia's Post-Soviet transformation to the impact of globalization and from the rise of Asia's Pacific Rim to the war in Iraq. Readers will find accurate data and information in this streamlined resource.

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For more than 25 years, historian David Goldfield has interpreted southern urban history for various audiences. This collection of eleven of Goldfield's best articles-- four unseen until now--discusses the economic importance of the South's small antebellum cities, the impact of World War II on southern cities, black political power, quality of life, and much more .