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Evolution of Geographical Thinking and Disciplinary Trends in France: Introduction, Early Geographical Background

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Introduction

The growth of geography as a discipline in France happened only after 19th century or the last part of the 19th century. The development was based on the early developments happened in the European scholars.

Early Geographical Background

  • Till the Second World War, determinism ruled the discipline and every action of man was described in the background of nature. This was same in the case of the French scholars during the medieval time. The French Scholar Montesquieu viewed that people in a warm climate are timorous, weak in body, indolent and passive.
  • The German scholars like Kant advocated determinism and Ritter and Ratzel advocated for anthropocentrism. The 19th century witnessed the influence of …

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Evolution of Geographical Thinking and Disciplinary Trends in France: Disciplinary Trends, Evolution of New Concept: Possibilism, Current Trends

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Disciplinary Trends

Regional Geography

  • It was an important branch developed in France. Blache initiated regional studies by developing the idea of pays. He was against the concept of pure geography and river basins as regions. Geographers like L. Gallois and E. De Martonne also contributed to regional geography. May works were published in this branch of Geography.
  • Vidal De la Blache ′ s “TableDe La Geographie” and “la France” (1903) , Demangeon ′ s ′ Picardie ′ (1905) , E. De Martonne ′ ′ Les Alps ′ (1926) and ′ An Essay on Middle…

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