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May 17, 2016 · Historiographical studies of human geography outline a disjointed narrative: geography emerged in the early nineteenth century, characterized by environmental determinism and historicism. 4 It became an arm of European imperialism, and fell into a crisis of disciplinary definition until the publication of Richard Hartshorne’s ‘Nature of Geography’ in 1939. 5 Hartshorne urged geographers ...
- Courtney J. Campbell
- 2016
Nov 11, 2004 · Abstract. Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today’s Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples’ trajectory from steppe, to empire, to ...
- Carter Vaughn Findley
These geographies are set within the extensive imperial and post-imperial space of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, two political and cultural formations which themselves contributed to perceptions of local and world geography. Although the comparative study of empire has received much impetus in recent years, it remains to a large extent ...
Jan 12, 2017 · That approach assigned a particular area or space to material objects and immaterial phenomena, laying the groundwork for the further development of geography as a spatial science. Academic geography moved from being a descriptive and classificatory discipline concerned with nature and the Earth in a biophysical sense to a methodologically inclusive endeavor aimed at discovering causal ...
- Benno Werlen
- benno.werlen@uni-jena.de
- 2017
Place is primary because it is the experiential fact of our existence."18 For geographers such as Allan Pred, place was central to social meaning not as a fixed spatial "container," but because it was always in a state of becoming, always the results of historically-contin. gent processes and social practices.19.
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Introduction. Human geographies of outer space encompass a burgeoning body of social science and humanities scholarship exploring the application of geographical perspectives, concepts, and approaches through the study of outer space, human–outer space relations, and space travel. Humanity’s engagement with outer space has everyday effects ...
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Sep 19, 2024 · A nationwide conception of time emerged, separating time from space, rationalising the ordering of “normalised” spaces, and replacing the local sense of time. 5 Giddens argues that modernity's dynamism stems from the separating, and then recombining of time and space, to enable a precise time–space “zoning” of social life.
