TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huntington,Ellsworth
AU  - Huntington,Ellsworth
AU  - Olmstead,A.T.
AU  - Vann,Barry
AU  - Vann,Barry Aron
TI  - Geography Toward History: Studies in the Mediterranean Basin, Mesopotamia and Central Asia 
T2  - Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
SN  - 9781593338619
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Historical Geography
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: Introducing Ellsworth Huntington --; Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. 45, No. 9 (1913). The New Science of Geography --; Part One: The Near East --; A Dialogue --; 1. Climatic Changes in the Nearer East --; 2. Climatic Changes in the Nearer East: A Reply --; Articles --; 3. The Depression of Sistan in Eastern Persia --; 4. The Valley of the Upper Euphrates River and Its People --; 5. Through the Great Cañon of the Euphrates River --; Part Two: The Mediterranean Basin --; Greece And Rome --; 6. Climatic Change And Agricultural Exhaustion As Elements In The Fall Of Rome --; 7. The Burial Of Olympia: A Study In Climate And History --; Asia Minor --; 8. The Karst Country of Southern Asia Minor --; 9. Railroads in Asia Minor --; Palestine --; 10. The Climate of Ancient Palestine. Part One --; 11. The Climate of Ancient Palestine. Part Two --; 12. The Climate of Ancient Palestine. Part Three --; 13. The Future of Palestine --; North Africa --; 14. The Libyan Oasis on Kharga --; Part Three: Central Asia --; 15. Problems in Exploration --; 16. An Archipelago of Sand Dunes in a Lake of Central Asia --; 17. The Mountains of Turkestan --; 18. Archaeological Discoveries in Chinese Turkestan --; 19. The Rivers of Chinese Turkestan and the Dessication of Asia --; 20. Lop-Nor. A Chinese Lake. Part One. The Unexplored Salt Desert of Lop --; 21. Lop-Nor. A Chinese Lake. Part Two. The Historic Lake --; Part Four: Geography And History --; 22. The Geographer And History --; 23. Changes Of Climate And History; restricted access
N2  - This work compiles essays by Dr. Huntington concerning the usefulness of geography and climatology for understanding history and projecting environmental outcomes. It is of value to students of geography, climatology and Mediterranean, the Near Eastern and Central Asian history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463213633
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463213633
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463213633/original
ER  -