Contemporary Europe : A Geographic Analysis, Paperback by Berentsen, William H. (EDT); Hoffman, George (EDT), ISBN 0471583367, ISBN-13 9780471583363, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A text for a geography course, designed to provide a groundwork to support lectures from a variety of perspectives. Focuses on contemporary rather than historical geography. Discusses general themes such as physical geography, population, the political map, economic geography, and urban geography. Then looks in turn at the British Isles, the west, the north, the south, west and east central, and Russia. First published in 1953, and updated here from the 1990 edition entitled Europe in the 1990s: A Geographical Analysis . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.