This textbook provides a systematic view of the socio-economic dimensions of the contemporary human geography of the United States. It deals successively with demographic, cultural, political and economic aspects of spatial differentiation, with rural and metropolitan America, and with the spatial dimensions of social problems and the experience of living in America. The work is illustrated with line drawings and half-tones and brings together much, up-to-date information from a variety of sources. The work is intended to be of particular value to students of geography and American studies.