Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition.

Brett McGillivray. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition, 2nd ed. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 282 pages. $95.00 cloth.

Regional geography, the analysis of a defined area's physical and human characteristics, has a long tradition within geography. But in the aftermath of the discipline's so-called Quantitative Revolution in the late 1950s and early '60s it fell into disrepute for being too descriptive. As a consequence, regional geography courses became relatively rare on U.S. college campuses. Other social scientists stepped into this vacuum and area ...