ABSTRACT
Geography has changed considerably since the Second World War. One of the most remarkable developments has been the decline of descriptive regional geography and the rise of new forms of applied geography, quite often quantitative in character. The changes in the content and orientation of geography are reflected in the changing popularity of major geographical textbooks which are included in the curricula of university geography departments. In this chapter we shall focus on the changing vision of the world as presented in the major geographical textbooks which have been used in the geography departments of Dutch universities since the early 1950s.
