The Peoples of Europe by Herbert John Fleure - HTML preview

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Among the most important general reference works one must mention the chief encyclopaedias, Reclus's Géographie universelle (also in English), the International Geography, the Dictionnaire de Géographie universelle (V. de S. Martin). Ratzel's Anthropogeographie and Brunhes's La Géographie humaine and Géographie humaine de la France should also be mentioned here. Bowman, The New World, has a fine collection of maps relating to the political resettlement of Europe.

On Race Questions the standard book is W. Z. Ripley's famous work, The Races of Europe, supplemented by G. Sergi's Europa in Italian and by a number of papers by Keith, Parsons, Peake, Fleure, and others in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute during the last ten years. Dr. Haddon and Mrs. Quiggin have issued a valuable revision of Keane's Man, Past and Present. Déchelette's Archéologie is the standard work in its field and may be supplemented from Burkitt's Prehistory and Macalister's Archaeology.

On Languages and their Distribution the student may begin by consulting A. Meillet's Les Langues dans l'Europe nouvelle and L. Dominian on Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe. From these books a bibliography can be compiled to suit the student's purpose.

The evolution of social conditions in Europe is so complex that it has not as yet received synthetic treatment, but some tentative efforts are useful if read critically. Among them one may note the files of La Science sociale and Demolins's Comment la route crée le type social, Guizot's Histoire de la Civilisation en Europe, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, his Fields, Factories, and Workshops, and his Memoirs of a Revolutionist, as well as Jenks's works, such as the little History of Politics, and Geddes's Cities in Evolution.

It is impossible to give an adequate list of books on special regions, but the following will be found of value for various parts of the Continent involved in the recent treaties:

P. Vidal de la Blache, Tableau de la Géographie de la France; P. Vidal de la Blache, La France de l'Est; R. Blanchard, La Flandre; H. J. Mackinder, The Rhine; Atlas de Finlande; P. Leroy Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars; A. B. Boswell, Poland and the Poles; J. Cvijic, La Péninsule balkanique; M. I. Newbigin, Geographical Aspects of Balkan Problems; M. E. Durham,  The Burden of the Balkans; E. de Martonne, La Valachie; A. Philippson, Das Mittelmeergebiet; D. G. Hogarth, The Nearer East.

Further guidance to books on regions of Europe will be found in the valuable handbooks issued by the British Government in two series, i.e. the handbooks issued by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, and the handbooks issued by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office.

The reader interested in some of the problems may wish to consult J. Fairgrieve's Geography and World-Power, H. J. Mackinder's Democratic Ideals and Reality, H. J. Fleure's Human Geography in Western Europe, and C. B. Fawcett's Frontiers.

The standard journals have issued important articles by Hinks, Lyde, Newbigin, and others on the rearranged boundaries of European states, and among books concerned with the new Europe one may mention J. M. Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace; I. Bowman, The New World; M. I. Newbigin, Aftermath; and H. J. Fleure, The Treaty Settlement in Europe.

The new Times Atlas is invaluable, and may be supplemented on the historical side by use of the well-known historical atlases of F. Schrader, Poole, Ramsay Muir, Diercke, and others. Several valuable maps occur only in Vidal de la Blache, Atlas général.