The Theory of Environment / An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and Its Present Status, part 1

by Armin Hajman Koller

[147]. Flint, l.c., p. 540.

[148]. Philos. Erdk. als wissenschaftliche Darstellung der Erdverhältnisse u. des Menschenlebens nach ihrem inneren Zusammenhange, 2 vols., Braunschweig, 1845; the 2nd ed. appeared in 1868 under the title Allgemeine Vergleichende Erdkunde.—This book holds a high place in Ratzel’s estimation: “Kapp, dessen Philos. Erdk. eine tiefgedachte, von überragendem philosophischem Standpunkte aus gewonnene Übersicht der Naturbedingtheit des Geschichtsverlaufes in den größten Zügen entrollt, ...”—Ratzel, Anthropogeographie, I², p. 34.

[149]. See Achelis, l.c., pp. 76 f.

[150]. Brunhes, l.c., p. 38 n.

[151]. Boston, 1849—It has been translated into English under the title The Earth and man, or Physical geography in its relation to the history of mankind, Slightly abridged, etc. (London: Parker, 1852), and into German as Grundzüge der vergleichenden physikalischen Erdkunde in ihrer Beziehung zur Geschichte des Menschen (1851).

[152]. (N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co., 1867—first published in 1857–61), vol. I, pp. 29–106: Influence exercised by physical laws over the organization of society and over the character of individuals.

[153]. Buckle and his Critics, London, 1895, 548 pp.

[154]. Camille Vallaux, Géographie Sociale (Paris, 1911), p. 23.

[155]. Vide supra, p. 46 f.

[156]. Anthropogeographie, I², p. 87.