Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Natural Advantages of the Territory of the Roman Empire--Physical Decay of that Territory--Causes of the Decay--Reaction of Man on Nature--Observation of Nature--Uncertainty of Our Historical Knowledge of Ancient Climates--Uncertainty of Modern Meteorology--Stability of Nature...
Natural Advantages of the Territory of the Roman Empire--Physical Decay of that Territory--Causes of the Decay--Reaction of Man on Nature--Observation of Nature--Uncertainty of...
2. Chapter 2Modern Geography takes Account of Organic Life--Geographical Importance of Plants--Origin of Domestic Vegetables--Transfer of Vegetable Life--Objects of Modern Commerce--Foreign...
3. Chapter 3The Habitable Earth Originally Wooded--General Meteorological Influence of the Forest--Electrical Action of Trees--Chemical Influence of Woods--Trees as Protection against Malar...
4. Chapter 4Land Artificially Won from the Waters--Great Works of Material Improvement--Draining of Lincolnshire Fens--Incursions of the Sea in the Netherlands--Origin of Sea-dikes--Gain an...
5. Chapter 5Origin of Sand--Sand now Carried to the Sea--Beach Sands of Northern Africa--Sands of Egypt--Sand Dunes and Sand Plains--Coast Dunes--Sand Banks--Character of Dune Sand--Interio...
6. Chapter 6Cutting of Isthmuses--Canal of Suez--Maritime Canals in Greece--Canals to Dead Sea--Canals to Libyan Desert--Maritime Canals in Europe--Cape Cod Canal--Changes in Caspian--Diver...
7. Chapter 7Natural Advantages of the Territory of the Roman Empire.--Physical Decay of that Territory.--Causes of the Decay.--Reaction of Man on Nature.-- Observation of Nature.--Uncertain...
8. Chapter 8It is on the one hand, rash and unphilosophical to attempt to set limits to the ultimate power of man over inorganic nature, and it is unprofitable, on the other, to speculate o...
9. Chapter 9Modern geography takes account of organic life--Geographical importance of plants--Origin of domestic vegetables-Transfer of vegetable life--Objects of modern commerce-Foreign p...
10. Chapter 10The habitable earth originally wooded--General meteorological influence of the forest--Electrical action of trees--Chemical influence of woods--Trees as protection against malar...
11. Chapter 11general, but his description can hardly refer to anything but the mistral of South-eastern France.] maintains that even the MISTRAL, or north-west wind, whose chilling blasts ar...
12. Chapter 12"A Hebrew tradition attributes to Joshua ten statutes, containing precise regulations for the protection of the property of every tribe and of every head of a family against irr...
13. Chapter 13Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material Improvement--Draining of Lincolnshire Fens--Incursions of the Sea in the Netherlands--Origin of Sea-dikes--Gain an...
14. Chapter 14Origin of Sand--Sand now Carried to the Sea--Beach Sands of Northern Africa--Sands of Egypt--Sand Dunes and Sand Plains--Coast Dunes--Sand Banks--Character of Dune Sand--Interio...
15. Chapter 15Cutting of Isthmuses--Canal of Suez--Maritime Canals in Greece--Canals to Dead Sea--Canals to Libyan Desert--Maritime Canals in Europe--Cape Cod Canal--Changes in Caspian--Diver...