 ... earth's surface, and therefore is more or less molded by its geographic setting. Geography, to reach accurate conclusions, must compare the operation of its factors in different historical periods and at different stages of cultural development. It...  School Science and Mathematics - Page 2611922Full view - About this book
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1909 - 902 pages
...and at different stages of cultural development. It, therefore, regards history in no small part as a succession of geographical factors embodied in events....Massachusetts' passionate abolition movement, it sees the granitic soil and boulderstrewn fields of New England ; back of the South's long fight for the maintenance... | |
 | Ohio Valley Historical Association - 1909 - 142 pages
...and at different stages of cultural development. It. therefore, regards history in no small part as a succession of geographical factors embodied in events....Massachusetts' passionate abolition movement, it sees the granitic soil and boulder-strewn fields of New England ; back of the South's long fight for the maintenance... | |
 | Ellen Churchill Semple - Human beings - 1911 - 720 pages
...and at different stages of cultural development. It therefore regards history in no small part as .a succession of geographical factors embodied in events....teeming fertility of the Mississippi bottom lands. This is the significance of Herder's saying that "history is geography set into motion." What is to-day... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - Historiography - 1925 - 240 pages
...expressed in terms of human action. It is, in the language of one of its expositors, ' in no small part a succession of geographical factors embodied in events....maintenance of slavery it sees the rich plantations of tide-way Virginia and the teeming fertility of the Mississippi bottom lands. This is the geographical... | |
 | Joseph Kirk Folsom - History - 1928 - 586 pages
...[geography] sees the granite soil and the boulder strewn fields of New England, back of the South 's long fight for the maintenance of slavery, it sees...and the teeming fertility of the Mississippi bottom lands."1 Buckle attributed "a highly wrought imagination and gross superstition to all people, like... | |
 | Kevin R Cox, Murray Low, Jennifer Robinson - Science - 2007 - 641 pages
...determinist text, where the arrow of causation runs regularly, and directly, from nature to politics: 'Back of Massachusetts' passionate abolition movement...boulder-strewn fields of New England; back of the South's long flight for the maintenance of slavery, it sees the rich plantations of tide water Virginia and the... | |
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