Historical geography

Short description: Sub-branch of human geography

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A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570

Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time.[1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.[2][3] Although the majority of work in historical geography is considered human geography, the field also encompasses studies of geographic change which are not primarily anthropogenic.[4] Historical geography is often a major component of school and university curricula in geography and social studies.[5] Current research in historical geography is being performed by scholars in more than forty countries.[6]

## Contents

* 1 Themes
* 2 Development of the discipline
* 3 List of historical geographers
* 4 Major institutions
* 5 Major journals
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 Further reading

## Themes

This sub-branch of human geography is closely related to history, environmental history, and historical ecology.[7]

Historical geography seeks to determine how cultural features of various societies across the planet emerged and evolved by understanding their interaction with their local environment and surroundings.[8][9]

More recent studies make use of non-traditional methods, such as botany and archeology.[10][4]

## Development of the discipline

In its early days, historical geography was difficult to define as a subject. A textbook from the 1950s cites a previous definition as an 'unsound attempt by geographers to explain history'.[11] Its author, J. B. Mitchell, came down firmly on the side of geography: 'the historical geographer is a geographer first last and all the time'. By 1975 the first number of the Journal of Historical Geography [12] had widened the discipline to a broader audience: 'the writings of scholars of any disciplinary provenance who have something to say about matters of geographical interest relating to past time'.[12]

In the United States, the term historical geography is the name given by Carl Ortwin Sauer of the University of California, Berkeley to his program of reorganizing cultural geography (some say all geography) along regional lines, beginning in the first decades of the 20th century. To Sauer, a landscape and the cultures in it could only be understood if all of its influences through history were taken into account: physical, cultural, economic, political, environmental. Sauer stressed regional specialization as the only means of gaining sufficient expertise on regions of the world. Sauer's philosophy was the principal shaper of American geographic thought in the mid-20th century. Regional specialists remain in academic geography departments to this day. Despite this, some geographers feel that it harmed the discipline; that too much effort was spent on data collection and classification, and too little on analysis and explanation. Studies became more and more area-specific as later geographers struggled to find places to make names for themselves. These factors may have led in turn to the 1950s crisis in geography, which raised serious questions about geography as an academic discipline in the USA.[13]

## List of historical geographers

* Yohanan Aharoni
* M. R. G. Conzen
* William Cronon
* William Morris Davis
* Ge Jianxiong
* Patrick Geddes
* Elisabeth Gottschalk
* Torsten Hägerstrand
* Peter Hall
* Cole Harris
* Hou Renzhi
* Sa'd ibn Junaydil
* Anne Kelly Knowles
* Roy Marom
* Donald W. Meinig
* Brandon Plewe
* Carl O. Sauer
* Tan Qixiang
* Charles W. J. Withers
* John Kirtland Wright
* Paul Vidal de la Blache
* Xiong Huizhen
* Yang Shoujing
* Zhou Zhenhe

## Major institutions

* The Historical Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers
* The Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society

## Major journals

* Journal of Historical Geography
* Historical Geography

## See also

* Historical atlas

## References

1. ↑ Sauer, Carl O. (1941). "Foreword to Historical Geography" (in en). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 31 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1080/00045604109357211. ISSN 0004-5608. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045604109357211.
2. ↑ Harris, Cole (1991). "Power, Modernity, and Historical Geography" (in en). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 81 (4): 671–683. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1991.tb01714.x. ISSN 0004-5608. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1991.tb01714.x.
3. ↑ Pounds, Norman J. G. (1990-08-31) (in en). An Historical Geography of Europe. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-32217-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zgc5AAAAIAAJ&dq=historical+geography&pg=PR7.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Taxel, Itamar (2023-03-04). "Towards an Integration of Historical Trees into the Mediterranean Archaeological Record: Case Studies from Central Israel" (in en). Environmental Archaeology 28 (2): 86–109. doi:10.1080/14614103.2021.1877512. ISSN 1461-4103. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2021.1877512.
5. ↑ Keighren, Innes M.; Crampton, Jeremy W.; Ginn, Franklin; Kirsch, Scott; Kobayashi, Audrey; Naylor, Simon N; Seemann, Jörn (2017). "Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions" (in en). Progress in Human Geography 41 (2): 245–262. doi:10.1177/0309132515575940. ISSN 0309-1325. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132515575940.
6. ↑ Powell, Richard, and Robert M Wilson. "What Futures for the Pillar of Geography? a Report on the 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers, London." Historical Geography 43 (2015).
7. ↑ Balée, William (2006): The Research Program of Historical Ecology. In Annual Review of Anthropology 35 (1), pp. 75–98.
8. ↑ Mills, Sarah (2013). "Cultural–Historical Geographies of the Archive: Fragments, Objects and Ghosts" (in en). Geography Compass 7 (10): 701–713. doi:10.1111/gec3.12071. ISSN 1749-8198. https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gec3.12071.
9. ↑ Merriman, Peter (2009-07-31) (in en). Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-49349-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=B66F33GUjvMC&dq=cultural+historical+geography&pg=PR7.
10. ↑ Marom, Roy; Taxel, Itamar (2023). "Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal 'Asqālan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE". Journal of Historical Geography 82: 49–65. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2023.08.003. ISSN 0305-7488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.08.003.
11. ↑ Mitchell, J.B. Historical Geography (Hodder and Stoughton educational, 1954)
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Journal of Historical Geography Volome 1, Number 1,1975
13. ↑ Williams, Michael (1983). ""The apple of my eye": Carl Sauer and historical geography". Journal of Historical Geography 9 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1016/0305-7488(83)90139-1. ISSN 0305-7488. https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-7488(83)90139-1.

## Further reading

* Catchpole, Brian. A Map History of the Modern World: 1890 to the Present Day. 1972 ed. Agincourt, Ont.: Bellhaven House, 1972. N.B.: First ed. published in 1968; an earlier revision with corrections appeared in 1970; partly an atlas of historical geography, partly an atlas illustrating historical events and trends. ISBN 0-88774-800-7
* Baker, A.R.H. Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

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