{"product_id":"maryland-geography-james-dilisio-9781421414829","title":"Maryland Geography: An Introduction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA grand tour of Maryland's geographic past through the lens of today's landscape.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he first laid eyes on the countryside around Chesapeake Bay in 1608, records reveal, Captain John Smith exclaimed, \"Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation.\" In \u003ci\u003eMaryland Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, James DiLisio--another admirer of the Free State--pays tribute to Maryland's rich cultural, historical, and geographical heritage. This up-to-date, in-depth account interprets the contemporary environmental conditions of the \"Marylandscape\" by emphasizing its evolving political and socioeconomic contours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis closely researched volume, which is loaded with instructive charts and maps, is the result of DiLisio's lifelong fascination with the geography of his adopted state and his thirty-five years teaching Maryland geography at Towson University. Arguing that regional geography is a product of both natural and human events, \u003ci\u003eMaryland Geography\u003c\/i\u003e provides an account of the vital geographical stage that the people of Maryland have created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiLisio touches on Maryland's pre-European American Indian heritage, post-colonial agriculture, and shifting industrial geography, as well as the degradation of the Chesapeake Bay and the rise of the modern economy. He considers the emergence of the isolated Eastern Shore; the rural tobacco land of southern Maryland; the rugged mining area of western Maryland; the prosperous, mixed farming area of the Piedmont; and the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington corridor. More than descriptive, the book examines major trends in the state--natural, economic, and demographic--in a way that prompts thinking about the consequences of growth and unbridled development. Aimed at college-level geography students, the book will also be of great interest to general readers, historians, politicians, and anyone involved in making policies relating to Maryland places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Dilisio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421414821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421414829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.65h x 6.23w x 0.83d","brand":"James Dilisio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761244303615,"sku":"9781421414829","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0801ffe9-ee57-4e42-8b6a-5ad2d3186faf.jpg?v=1706680785","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maryland-geography-james-dilisio-9781421414829","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}