Climate as related to industry and commerce 1910

Climate as Related to Industry and Commerce is a 1910 educational text by James Franklin Chamberlain (1869-1943), the Los Angeles normal-school professor who wrote a shelf of commercial and home geographies for American schools. The book teaches how rainfall, temperature, and season shape what regions grow, make, and trade, in the practical geography style of the period. School texts like this record how Americans were taught to see the economic world before the First World War. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.