Influences of Geographic Environment: On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-GeographySemple, Ellen Churchill
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Influences of Geographic Environment: On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Semple, Ellen Churchill
Human beings -- Effect of environment on; Human geography
merchant marine nearly half as large again as that of Russia and Finland
combined--1,569,646 tons[125] as against 1,084,165 tons.
This growing dependence of a civilized people upon its land is
characterized by intelligence and self-help. Man forms a partnership
with nature, contributing brains and labor, while she provides the
capital or raw material in ever more abundant and varied forms. As a
result of this cooeperation, held by the terms of the contract, he
secures a better living than the savage who, like a mendicant, accepts
what nature is pleased to dole out, and lives under the tyranny of her
caprices.
NOTES TO CHAPTER III
[79] H.J. Mackinder, Britain and the British Seas, p. 196. London, 1904.
[80] Gardner, Atlas of English History, Map 29. New York, 1905.
[81] Hereford George, Historical Geography of Great Britain, pp. 58-60.
London, 1904.
[82] Lewis Morgan, Ancient Society, p. 62. New York, 1878.
[83] Franklin H. Giddings, Elements of Sociology, p. 247. New York,
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[84] Schoolcraft, The Indian Tribes of the United States, Vol. I, pp.
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[85] _Ibid._, Vol. I, pp. 231-232, 241.
[86] Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Vol. I, pp. 70-73, 88. New
York, 1895.
[87] McGee and Thomas, Prehistoric North America, pp. 392-393, 408, Vol.
XIX, of _History of North America_, edited by Francis W. Thorpe,
Philadelphia, 1905. _Eleventh Census Report on the Indians_, p. 51.
Washington, 1894.
[88] Hans Helmolt, History of the World, Vol. II, pp. 249-250. New York,
1902-1906.
[89] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp.
13-15. London, 1904.
[90] Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. I, p. 126. London, 1896-1898.
[91] Roscher, _National-Oekonomik des Ackerbaues_, p. 24. Stuttgart,
1888.
[92] Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. I, p. 131. London, 1896-1898.
[93] Paul Ehrenreich, _Die Einteilung und Verbreitung der Voelkerstaemme
Brasiliens_, Peterman's _Geographische Mittheilungen_, Vol. XXXVII, p.
85. Gotha, 1891.
[94] Roscher, _National-Oekonomik des Ackerbaues_, p. 26, Note 5.
Stuttgart, 1888.
[95] _Ibid._, p. 27.
[96] Albert Niblack, The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Northern
British Columbia, pp. 298-299, 304, 337-339. Washington, 1888.
[97] Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, p. 173. London, 1896-1898.
[98] _Ibid._, Vol. III. pp. 173-174.
[99] Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, Vol. I, p. 184. New York and
London, 1903.
[100] John de Plano Carpini, Journey in 1246, p. 130. _Hakluyt Society_,
London, 1904.
[101] Journey of William de Rubruquis in 1253, p. 188. _Hakluyt
Society_, London, 1903.
[102] Volney, quoted in Malthus, Principles of Population, Chap. VII, p.
60. London, 1878.
[103] Genesis, Chap. XIII, 1-12.
[104] Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, Vol. I. p. 457. New
York.
[105] Heinrich von Treitschke, _Politik_, Vol. I, pp. 202-204. Leipzig,
1897.
[106] E.C. Semple, American History and Its Geographic Conditions, pp.
206-207. Boston, 1903.
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