The Early Evolution of the Science of Geography in the United States

虽然地理学科经历了戏剧性的 近几十年来，它的大部分发展仍然存在， 受1960年代早期开始的事件和进程的强烈影响， 它作为一门学术学科在美国的正式建立 States. 许多材料，其中更详细和全面 美国地理学的发展史可以建立在 保存在美国和欧洲档案馆的书面材料。 这个项目将使美国最重要的历史学家之一， 地理花费大量的时间检查材料在这些 档案，以扩大和丰富对关键的一般理解 19世纪80年代以来学科发展的活动和主题 一直持续到20世纪40年代 这项研究的成果将包括文章 在学术期刊和一本书的章节中， 美国地理学发展的第一个世纪。 出版物 也将随之而来，这将使这些档案的内容更好 为其他学者所知。 通过深入研究与早期历史有关的材料， 在美国的学术地理，调查人员将提高自己的 对学科发展的理解，将成为 通过学术出版物与科学家分享。 阐明 档案材料的使用也将提高其他 研究地理学史的学者们 research. 通过这些系统的研究， 这门学科的重要概念和方法发展， 当代从业者的能力，进行他们的工作， 将得到有效提升。

Although the discipline of geography has undergone dramatic transformations in recent decades, much of its development remains strongly influenced by events and processes begun in the early years of its formal establishment as a scholarly discipline in the United States. Much of the material on which more detailed and comprehensive histories of the development of American geography can be built are written materials stored in archives in the United States and Europe. This project will enable one of the foremost historians of American geography to spend considerable time examining materials in these archives in order to expand and enrich general understandings of key activities and themes in the discipline's development from the 1880s through the 1940s. The outcomes of this research will include articles in scholarly journals and chapters in a book that will consider the first century of the development of geography in America. Publications also will ensue that will make the contents of these archives better known to other scholars. By intensively examining material related to the early history of scholarly geography in America, the investigator will improve his own understandings of the discipline's development, insights that will be shared with scientists through scholarly publications. The elucidation of archival materials also will heighten the potential for other scholars exploring the history of geography to conduct their own research. Through these systematic investigations of the evolution of crucial conceptual and methodological developments in the discipline, the abilities of contemporary practitioners to conduct their work more effectively will be enhanced.