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and a brief description of the processes of change are provided for each group. Strong emphases are placed on the historical and literary background leading up to present-day circumstances. Indeed, in parts so much attention is paid to these aspects that the spatial dimension receives scant attention and even then only in a very elementary manner. To some extent the fifteen sketchmaps included in the book make up for these inadequacies of the written text. The information on which Linguistic minorities is based has been derived from a very large number of primary and secondary sources. Many of these have been thoughtfully included in the select bibliography at the end of the book. In the first edition of such an all-embracing survey it is perhaps inevitable that some factual and interpretative errors should creep in and these have been detected in the accounts of linguistic minorities in Norway and Switzerland. Yet, in reading through this valuable reference work this can be regarded only as a niggling criticism. The late Carl O. Sauer (1944, p. 570) once wrote as follows any language tends to operate as a cultural cement for those who speak it and, except as the group expands over weaker neigh- bours, as an isolating mechanism to preserve particularism'. From a close reading of this fascinating book we can soon realise how true these words are for us today. This is a pioneering work of the utmost significance for all human geographers who seek to bring a strong measure of 'relevance' into their studies of modern Europe. C. O. SAUER (1944) A geographic sketch of early man in America. Geographical Review, 34, 529­573. W. T. R. Pryce Marfceting Geography: with special reference to retailing. Ross L. Davies. Retail and Planning Associates, 1976. £ 6.90. Although few University departments in Britain provide specific courses in Marketing Geography, this text should be of considerable significance to students of Geography and Planning throughout the country. Most courses include much of the subject matter discussed by the author in this comprehensive and authoritative review of the theories, techniques, research findings and problems of retail planning. Drawing on his experience in Britain and America as an academic and practising geographer/planner, Ross Davies provides