What is Geography?
While the word geography is derived from Greek and literally means "to write about the earth," the subject of geography is much more than describing "foreign" places or memorizing the names of capitals and countries. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks to understand the world - its human and physical features - through an understanding of place and location. Geographers study where things are and how they got there. My favorite definitions for geography are "the bridge between the human and physical sciences" and "the mother of all sciences." Geography looks at the spatial connection between people, places, and the earth.
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All About Geography - 0 views
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This seems to be a good basic definition
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A more comprehensive view of geography but still textbook
Foreign Policy: Kaplan's "The Revenge of Geography" - 0 views
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but geography largely determines them, now more than ever
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it’s time to dust off the Victorian thinkers who knew the physical world best.
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Oh what interesting thoughts... Compelling written to evoke the "hidden, forgotten truths" of the past. But is it true?
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And of all the unsavory truths in which realism is rooted, the bluntest, most uncomfortable, and most deterministic of all is geography.
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Census - 2 views
Census attempting to reach out to young people. Use of word "negro" may "turn younger African Americans off so much they might not turn in the form?"
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