The Geography of South America
A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography
Abstract
South America is an area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, and its land and people have played important roles in the discovery and distribution of civilizations, resources, and nations for millennia. The region has long stimulated a large amount of research across the many subdisciplines of geography, and Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many scholarly publications as possible in The Geography of South America: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography. Every South American nation is included: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Beginning with an overview of the region as a whole, successive chapters, one per nation, are divided by specific subdisciplines of geography: cultural, social, economic, historical, physical and environmental, political, and urban. Each section is then divided by document type: atlases, books, book chapters, articles from scholarly journals, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations. Although the majority of entries focus on English-language works, selected entries written in Spanish, French, German, and other languages are also included (with the entry titles translated into English and noted accordingly).
- i–xii Preface i–xii
- 43–66 2 Argentina 43–66
- 67–78 3 Bolivia 67–78
- 79–126 4 Brazil 79–126
- 127–144 5 Chile 127–144
- 145–154 6 Colombia 145–154
- 155–170 7 Ecuador 155–170
- 171–172 8 French Guiana 171–172
- 173–180 9 Guyana 173–180
- 181–184 10 Paraguay 181–184
- 185–202 11 Peru 185–202
- 203–204 12 Surinam 203–204
- 205–208 13 Uruguay 205–208
- 209–220 14 Venezuela 209–220
- 221–250 Author Index 221–250
- 251–251 About the Author 251–251