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The Rawson family a revised memoir or Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1650-1686, with genealogical notices of his descendants, including nine generations.
According to the author a geographic region must satisfy the following conditions: however striking the diversity of the physical setting and the languages, religions and general appearance of the people, there must be some aspect of culture (for example, the social outlook or the organization of the economy) which pervades the area in such a way as to justify the recognition and study of that area as one entity and there must be substantial cultural differences between it and adjacent areas. Monsoon Asia, from Pakistan to Japan is more than a land area and an assemblage of countries: it is a distinctive geographical region. Its population--which includes nearly half the people in the world-...
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Structure and Relief -- 3 Climate -- 4 Natural Vegetation -- 5 Soils -- 6 Historical Geography -- 7 Agriculture -- 8 Manufacturing Industry -- 9 India: the British Period and the Partition of 1947 -- 10 The Republic of India -- 11 Pakistan and Kashmir -- 12 Ceylon -- 13 China -- 14 Japan and Korea -- 15 South-east Asia -- 16 Postscript -- Selected Bibliography -- Index