Ellsworth Huntington: considerations on the letters of the “distribution of civilization” map of “Civilization and Climate”
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2020.162309Keywords:
History of Geography, Social Darwinism, Human Geography in USA, Ellsworth HuntingtonAbstract
Coming from an author who was significantly influenced by Social Darwinism, Ellsworth Huntington’s (1876-1947) intellectual efforts played a decisive role in strengthening American Human Geography in the early twentieth century. The article aims to contribute to the enlightenment of an important episode that occurred during the expansion period of the academic Geography in the USA. It was the elaboration, by this geographer, of a map of “distribution of civilization” that sought to rank the regions of the world on a scale from 0 to 10. The map was published in one of the chapters of “Civilization and Climate”, a book that had its first edition in 1915 and a third extended edition in 1924. That work is one of the first more systematic attempts to discuss a specific geographic epistemology and to elaborate a geographical theory of history that were produced in the USA, which is why it has an unique importance in the history of Geography.
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