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Overview
This work shows how historians, geographers and philosophers have invoked nature in its various manifestations - climate, topography, vegetation, wildlife and disease - as a dynamic force in human history. In particular, it shows how ideas of geographical and biological determinism have played a major part in social, historical and geographical theory and explanation, and just how problematic this invocation of nature can be.
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- ISBN-13: 9780631190219
- ISBN-10: 063119021X
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publish Date: September 1996
- Dimensions: 8.95 x 5.96 x 0.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.71 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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