Considering Space, Place and History in North America

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Considering Space, Place and History in North
America

• I. Intro
• Field Trip
• Hist Geog to Mid-Century
• Hist Geog after Mid-Century
• Modern Hist Geog
• Hist Geog of N.Am and The New World

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Question for Seminar

• For Week 2, The History of Historical Geography
• Q What is different about the approaches to
  historical geography of Sauer (1941), Clark
  (1959), and Harris (1966)?

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St. Johns, Newfoundland
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Academic Quadrangles
Massey College, University of Toronto
St. Johns College, Oxford
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What is Historical Geography?

• Hist -- people in the past
• Hgeog -- places in the past
• A geographers problems, historians methods

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What is Historical Geography?

• Geographers Concerned With
• Social the Spatial
• Social the Natural
• Reln between various elements
• Greater concern with stuff (material history)
  than historians

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To Mid-Century

• Influence of Environment on human society
• Reconstruction of past geographies
• Carl Sauer and landscape

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From Mid-Century

• Andrew Hill Clark the problems of
  reconstruction change
• Cole Harris John Warkentin
• HGeog and Social and Economic History

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Modern Hist Geog

• The development of modernity
• Interconnections
• Relations of power
• Place in a globalizing world

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Modern Hist Geog

• Four Themes (Last Week)
• Colonialism Imperialism
• Local the Global
• Power
• Human Relations with the Land

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North America

• Acquistion of geographical knowl.
• Cultural transfer acculturation
• Frontier expansion
• Spatial organization of society
• Resource exploitation