Book reviews: Atlas zur Raumentwicklung 4: Bevölkerung

Summary

This is a collection of book reviews from the 1980 issue of the Geographical Review, evaluating three geographical works. The first review assesses a historical geography textbook of England and Wales edited by Brian Blouet, noting its weaker medieval coverage but strong treatment of the 1500-1900 period, with particularly excellent chapters by Yelling, Langton, and Smith. The second review examines the population volume of the Atlas of Regional Development published by Germany's Federal Research Institute for Regional Geography, which contains 64 maps systematically presenting population trends, birth rates, migration patterns, and age structures in West Germany from 1960 to 1985. The third review evaluates Paul Shaw's 'Canada's Farm Population,' based on the 1971 Census Agriculture-Population Linkage, which provides the first comprehensive socioeconomic profile of Canadian farm families, though it contains errors in data interpretation.