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The history of geography is the history of thinking about the concepts of environments, places, and spaces. Its content covers an understanding of the physical reality we occupy and our transformations of environments into places that we find more comfortable to inhabit (although many such modifications often have negative long-term impacts).
This article examines the ways in which geographers have written about the history of geography in the early modern period (c. 1600–1850). It is argued that geography was a clearly defined practice...
In the West during the second half of the 19th and the 20th century, the discipline of geography at various time engaged with four broad themes: environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography.
It is fundamental for beginning an exploration of the history of geography because it is a consistent, coherent, solid, and well-documented historiographical book that still amply repays reading and study.
- Carla Mariana Lois
- 2018
May 1, 2013 · Loosely following Jörn Rüsen (1982), we can distinguish three types of narration that have been employed in writing the history of geography: traditional, exemplary and critical...
Mar 27, 2014 · An exhaustive bibliography featuring scholarship by historical geographers on the United States and Canada up until the early 1990s. Contains invaluable, lengthy essays by Michael Conzen and Graeme Wynn about the development of historical geography in the United States and Canada. Harris, Cole. “Power, Modernity, and Historical Geography.”
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From the 1930s, historical geography gained prominence through the valuable studies in sequent occupance—i.e., the study of the human occupation of a specific region over intervals of historic time—initiated by Derwent S. Whittlesey and Carl O. Sauer.
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