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Historical geography seeks to understand geographies of the past and also how the past impinges on the present. Historical geography derives theoretical viewpoints, subject matters, and methodological tools from both geography and history and it works at the boundary of these academic disciplines.
Periodization is the process of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, named blocks of time in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history. This results in descriptive abstractions that provide convenient terms for periods of time with relatively stable characteristics.
7 maj 2020 · We take material culture to be physical entities that resonate with communities of humans. These may be physical things that humans have found and selected, adapted, or fashioned for their use, whether physically, cognitively, or both.
22 paź 2024 · Cultural Geography explains cultural change in different geographical settings, from the politics of everyday life to the production and consumption of landscapes, to the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and nationality. ...
10 lis 2017 · Having two predictable keys—along, however, with other, more varied criteria that apply to individual periods—already helps considerably in clarifying a world history frame. Defining world history periods, despite the regional and topical challenges, is not a random exercise.
In the West during the second half of the 19th and the 20th century, the discipline of geography at various time engaged with four broad themes: environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography.
It discusses first world histories that originated as part and parcel of religious visions which connect Creation myths and human history; Greek and Roman historiography; the Christian synthesis of salvation; medieval European historiography of the Six Ages and the Four Empires; Muslim historiography; the European discovery of new histories ...
