The Impress of Effective Central Authority upon the Landscape

Abstract

Political activities leave their impress upon the landscape, just as economic pursuits do. Many acts of government become apparent in the landscape only as phenomena of economic geography; others express themselves directly. Deep and widely ramified impress upon the landscape is stamped by the functioning of authority. By central authority is meant sovereignty over an area of marked diversity. To be the government must exert more than nominal control over its area. Today effective authority is a function of the national state.'

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