Abstract
DURING the present century the subject of historical geography has developed from rather crude efforts to show how geography has influenced the course of history to the study of the use of possibilities by man in successive ages. Mr. Fairgrieve's book belongs to the earlier period, although its author has attempted to avoid obviously determinist doctrines by his definition of the word 'Control'. “When we say”, he writes, “that 'history is controlled by geography' we do not say that man is compelled by geography to use more and more energy, but that the precise way in which he has come to do this is largely controlled by his environment.”
Geography and World Power
By James Fairgrieve. Eighth and revised edition. Pp. viii + 376. (Bickley, Kent: University of London Press, Ltd., 1941.) 7s. 6d. net.
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BAKER, J. Geography and World Power. Nature 149, 103–104 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149103b0
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