Influences of Geographic Environment / On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-GeographyEllen Churchill Semple
Influences of Geographic Environment / On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Ellen Churchill Semple
Essays
Book language: English
746 pages
Influences of Geographic Environment is a collection of essays in anthropo-geography, based on Friedrich Ratzel's system. Ellen Churchill Semple explains how natural surroundings shape human societies and history. It offers a clear introduction to early geographic thought and its lasting questions about humanity and place.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
Influences Of Geographic Environment On
The Basis Of Ratzel's System Of AnthropoGeography
By Ellen Churchill Semple
Author of "American History and Its Geographic Conditions"
TO THE MEMORY OF FRIEDRICH RATZEL
Hither, as to their fountain, other stars
Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.
MILTON.
Preface
The present book, as originally planned over seven years ago, was to be a simplified paraphrase or restatement of the principles embodied in Friedrich Ratzel's Anthropo-Geographie. The German work is difficult reading even for Germans. To most English and American students of geographic environment it is a closed book, a treasure-house bolted and barred. Ratzel himself realized "that any English form could not be a literal translation, but must be adapted to the Anglo-Celtic and especially to the Anglo-American mind." The writer undertook, with
Ratzel's approval, to make such an adapted restatement of the
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