96 Geoforum 19174

Geography) in den Titel des Buches infolge

der noch starken wissenschaftstheoretischen

Determination im deutschen Sprachgebrach

nicht zu sehr geeignet, allgemein giiltige

Methoden (Locational Analysis) zur geo-

graphischen Regionalanalyse einzufiihren.

Zwar konnten in der Kulturgeographie und

insbesondere der Soziaigeographie die quanti-

tativen Methoden infolge starkster inter-

dependenzen grogte Wirkung erzielen, brin-

gen siedoch durch ihre 2-T. wertfreien An-

s&e such wesentliche Erkenntnisse fiir

andere Teilbereiche der Geographie. Zum

anderen ware bei der deutschen Neuaufiage

durchaus eine Literaturfortschreibung sinn-

voll gewesen; sie w&de beweisen, da13 sich

diese Arbeitsrichtung in der Regionalanalyse

wesentlich erweitert und bereits such Anwen-

dung in einer wissenschaftstheoretischen

Fundamentierung der Geographie gefunden

hat.

Gerhard BRAUN, W~rzbu~

BECK, Hanno (1973): Geographie.

Europ;iische Entwicklung in Texten und

Erlauterungen (Orbis Academicus).

Freiburg/Mlnchen: Verlag Karl Alber.

510 pp., cloth, DM 65,-.

Hanno BECK has attempted an almost

impossible task: to illustrate, by a coilec-

tion of texts with interpretative commen-

tary and within a volume of reasonable size

and cost, the development of geography in

Europe. The literature is so abundant that

the anthologist must restrict to the utmost

the number of authors quoted and the

length of the excerpts from their writings.

BECK gives the largest fraction of his

limited space to the literature published

since 1700. He is thus able to introduce

authors, primarily German authors, who

have not hitherto been noticed in general

works. The longest chapter (69 pp.) covers

the years 1905-J 945; and the next longest

(56 pp.) the period of “preclassicat geo-

graphy,” 1750-l 798. The author cited at

greatest length is Carl TROLL. The only

non-German writers later than 1700 re-

presented by long excerpts are Horace-

Benedict de SAUSSURE, Eli&e RECLUS,

and Paul VIDAL de la BLACHE. The in-

fluence of W. M. DAVIS is noted, but the

texts quoted are Alfred HETTNER’s and

Hans WEBER’s well-deserved criticisms of

DAVIS.

BECK defends his partiality to German

authors by citing their importance for

European geography in general. That im-

portance can no& be denied: but ideas,

especially in geography, change as they

diffuse across national boundaries. Aside

from modern geographers from outside

Germany, France, and Switzerland, this

reviewer misses most the medieval scholars

who wrote in Latin. Albertus Magnus could

have provided as edifying an excerpt ds

j. R. Forster. BECK confesses his inability

to read Latin easily; the reader may be

forgiven if he wonders about BECK’s

acquaintance with writings in modern

European languages other than German and

French. He should have pondered a passage

on his p. 178 in which 1. G. HERDER

deplores those “who imagine that . the sun

of reason shines only in their cave.” His

commentaries are good, but often fail to

convey an adequate notion of the whole

work under discussion. For example, the

commentary that accompanies his quota-

tion of Gottfried LANGE’s translation of

the introductory pages of VARENIUS’

Geogrophio genera/is does not acquaint the

reader with the substance of that immen-

sely influential work.

As in all of his writings, BECK includes a

full scholarly apparatus: abundant biblio-

graphic notes, a classified bibliography much

more inclusive than the anthology proper,

a biographical check list of 300 geographers

(taken in a sense broad enough to include

both F. E. CLEMENTS and HOMER; but

where are Henrik Blink, Olinto Marinelli,

and Axe1 Schou?), and indexes of persons

and toprcs. The only printer’s error that

seriously disturbs the reader is the omission

of something between lines 3 and 4 of

p. 188.

Elsewhere BECK has written that “[tjhe

best introduction to geography is its

history.” Despite its myopia, BECK’s

Geographic is the best contemporary intro-

duction to that history: it serves the essential

purpose of an introduction by directing the

reader both to the works quoted and to a

vast additional literature. With this guidance

the student can find his way into the

stream of geographical thought at any point

in time. Every teacher and student of the

subject shouid have the book within easy

reach.

John LEIGHLY, Berkeley, Caiif.

RUPPERT, K. and F. SCHAFFER, eds.

(1972): Akzente des sozialen Wandels in

jugoslawien. Voi. 9, WGI-Berichte zur

Regionalforschung. 74 pp., 4 maps, 8 tables.

Miinchen: W~rtschaftsgeographischcs

lnstitut der Universitst. DM 16,SO.

The special research project on Southeast

Europe of the University of Munich covers

a number of projects discussing the problems

of socio-economic changes with special

emphasis on problems of regional and other

changes in the agrarian and industrial

society. The economic geographic institute

of the University of Munich has recently

published five interim reports of its research

on Yugoslavia. Three of the projects, those

by Hermann GROSS and Werner GUMPEL,

Franz RONNEBERGER and

Heinz KONTEZKI and Karl RUPPERT deal

with the processes of change in agriculture.

All deal with developments in the territory

of today’s Yugoslavia. The reports by

Wolfgang ZORN and ZORN and

Sybille SCHNEIDER show the social changes

from the late 18th to the first part of the

19th centuries and analyze the early in-

dustrialization based on three maps of the

periods 1800, 1850, and 1900.

GROSS and GUMPEL’s study ,,Struktureller

Wandlungsprozess der Agrarbev~lkerung in

jugoslawien in Abh~ngigkeit von Wirtschafts-

system und Wirtschaftspolitik (Structural

regrouping of the agrarian population in

Yugoslavia related to the economic system

and economic politics),” discusses the

various processes of change. The authors

come to the conclusion that the structural

changes contributed to a reduction of the

agrarian overpopulation, but see a long

term solution more in emigration than in

employment in domestic industry, though

they are aware of the possible domestic

impact of a recession and a subsequent

reduction and return of a large number of

toreign workers.

RONNEBERGER and KONTEZKI study

,,Strukturen und Funktionen iandwirt-

schaftlicher Genossenschaften in Jugoslawien

im Lichte des sozialen Wandels eines sozia-

listischen Systems (Structures and functions

of agricultural cooperatives in Yugoslavia in

the light of the social changes of a socialist

system).” The authors assume that structures

and functions of an agrarian economic and

social organization are determined not only

by the social system, but that they are also

included in the whole theoretical discussion

complex so often cited under “<ociai changes”

(Sozialer Wandel). The authors conclude

their discussions by citing six points indica-

ting temporary results of their study.

Karl RUPPERT discusses the ,,Deagrarisation

in Jugoslawien” (Deagrarization in

Yugoslavia) and compares the different

development processes between Kosovo and

Slovenia using the most and least deagrariani-

zed political units of Yugoslavia as case

studies. This study with its excellent maps

analyzes the changing agrarian processes of

these two regions, based on the existing