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Geography the Correlative Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Griffith Taylor
Griffith Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, The University of Toronto
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In the present paper I propose first to discuss the place of geography among the sciences, and then to show how modern geographical technique can be applied with fruitful results in the fields of history, economics, anthropology, sociology, and linguistics.

At the University of Chicago, one of the three leading research institutions in America, the four general divisions of undergraduate study are the social, physical, and biological sciences and the humanities. It was found desirable to give geography a place in the first two divisions, thus emphasizing its liaison character. Indeed the relations between geographical research and such subjects as history and biology are so close that the writer feels that geography might well have been given representation on the boards of all four divisions!

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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , November 1935 , pp. 535 - 550
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1935

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References

1 Bowman, Isaiah, Geography in relation to the Social Sciences (New York, 1934), p. 217.Google Scholar

2 For an illuminating account of modern geographical aims see Dickenson, R. E. and Howarth, O. J. R., The Making of Geography (Oxford, 1933).Google Scholar

3 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. XXIV, pp. 171–318.Google Scholar

4 See also Ecology, 1934, pp. 223–42.Google Scholar

5 Many of the data used to produce figure 4 are taken from Homer Hoyt's excellent book, A Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago (Chicago, 1933).Google Scholar

6 Tucker, T. G., The Natural History of Language (London, 1908).Google Scholar

7 See article on “Nordic and Alpine Races” referred to below.