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Preston E. James

American geographer

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regional geography

  • camel; Pyramids of Giza
    In geography: Geography in the United States

    …published major texts, such as Preston E. James in his renowned Latin America (1942). Many introductory texts, such as James’s An Outline of Geography (1935), used regional divisions of the world as organizing templates, though the regions were usually defined at much larger scales than the Vidalian pays.

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