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Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer who lived from 1844 to 1904. He helped establish anthropogeography, an approach concerned with relationships among human societies, migration, territory, and the physical environment, and he wrote influential works in political geography. Rat...
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Major founder of anthropogeography, historically influential, but reputation damaged by determinism and geopolitical misuse.
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Ellen Churchill Semple (1863-1932) was an American geographer whose work helped establish environmental determinism as an influential approach in early twentieth-century human geography. Her book Influences of Geographic Environment, published in 1911, examined how climate, terrain, resources, and r...
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Influential American environmental determinist, important institutional role, but core theories are widely rejected today.
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