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Richard Hartshorne (December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography. He is known in particular for his methodological work The Nature of Geography, published in 1939.
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“Problems connected with political boundaries have frequently elicited the interest of geographers. In all countries with chronic or acute boundary problems the geographers are drawn into the general discussion, more or less as experts, and in some cases the professional geographer has actually been called upon to assist in the determination and demarcation of boundaries.”
“Of all territorial settlements made at the end of the World War none has been so frequently criticized as that which we call the .”
“Geography is not an infant subject, born out of the womb of American geology a few decades ago, which each new generation of American students may change around at will.”
“Science is... in the broadest sense of organized, objective knowledge.”
“Geography is concerned to provide accurate, orderly, and rational description and interpretation of the variable character of the earth surface.”
“We may once again modify our statement of the purpose of geography to read: the study that seeks to provide scientific description of the earth as the world of man.”
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