Civilization and Climate - Softcover

Huntington, Ellsworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898753252 ISBN 13: 9780898753257

Verlag: Intl Law & Taxation Pub, 2001

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This volume is a product of the new science of geography. The old geography strove primarily to produce exact maps of the physical features of the earths surface. The new goes farther. It adds to the physical maps an almost inmmierable series showing the distribution of plants, animals, and man, and of every phase of the life of these organisms. It does this, not as an end in itself, but for the purpose of comparing the physical and organic maps and thus determining how far vital phenomena depend upon geographic environment. A mong the things to be mapped, human character as expressed in civilization is one of the most interesting and one whose distribution most needs explanation. The only way to explain it is to ascertain the effect of each of many cooperating factors. Such matters as race, religion, institutions, and the influence of men of genius must be considered on the one hand, and geographical location, topography, soil, climate, and similar physical conditions on the other. This book sets aside the other factors, except incidentally, and confines itself to climate. In that lie both its strength and weakness. When the volume was first planned, I contemplated a discussion of all the factors and an attempt to assign to each its proper weight. The first friend whom I consulted advised a directly opposite course, whereby the emphasis should be centered upon the new climatic facts which seem to afford ground for a revision of some of our old estimates of the relation between man and his environment.
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• Verlag: Intl Law & Taxation Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0898753252
• ISBN 13: 9780898753257
• Einband: Tapa blanda