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Human Geography
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of
geography that is associated and deals with humans and
their relationships with communities, cultures,
economies, and interactions with the environment by
studying their relations with and across locations. It
analyzes patterns of human social interaction, their
interactions with the environment, and their spatial
interdependencies by application of qualitative and
quantitative research methods.
History
Geography was not recognized as a formal academic
discipline until the 18th century, although many
scholars had undertaken geographical scholarship for
much longer, particularly through cartography.
The Royal Geographical Society was founded in England in
1830,[4] although the United Kingdom did not get its
first full Chair of geography until 1917. The first real
geographical intellect to emerge in United Kingdom's
geographical minds was Halford John Mackinder, appointed
reader at Oxford University in 1887. |
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The National Geographic Society was founded in the
United States in 1888 and began publication of the
National Geographic magazine which became, and continues
to be, a great popularizer of geographic information.
The society has long supported geographic research and
education on geographical topics.
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The Association of American Geographers was founded in
1904 and was renamed the American Association of
Geographers in 2016 to better reflect the increasingly
international character of its membership. |
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One of the first examples of geographic methods being
used for purposes other than to describe and theorize
the physical properties of the earth is John Snow's map
of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak. Though Snow
was primarily a physician and a pioneer of epidemiology
rather than a geographer, his map is probably one of the
earliest examples of health geography. |
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