For more than a generation in the United States, and now increasingly in Europe, students have shown growing interest in the “tradition” of political theory. This particular literary practice is often said to be one of the guiding intellectual threads of the Western tradition as a whole. It is remarkable, therefore, that historically this “tradition” has had practically no professional practiti...

In recent years, political geography has begun to revisit traditional geographical theories using quantitative methodologies. Size, location, density, position, and other important geographic characteristics have reemerged as central data points in the analysis of phenomena. this article, we analyze possible relationships between size (territorial electoral) electoral outcomes (competitiveness ...

This study aims at exploring the different stages through which Military Geography has gone, starting from early of Descriptive to Quantitative Revolution, Statistics; level revolution information technology and geographical systems emerged; use artificial intelligence-oriented devices analyze locations arriving plausible decisions in spheres. More particularly, field military geography there e...

Hydrogeomorphic controls on runoff in a temperate swamp S. C. Kaufman, J. M. Waddington, and B. A. Branfireun McMaster University, School of Geography and Geology, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada University of Toronto at Mississauga, Department of Geography, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada Received: 7 March 2005 – Accepted: 16 March 200...

This analysis of the Brazilian geography congresses sponsored by the Geography Society of Rio de Janeiro between 1909 and 1944 identifies commonalities as well as differences over the years. Given how these scientific events focused on both the state of the art within the field as well as on its overall development, such an analysis serves as a good thermometer for measuring the social, economi...

Students in grade six expand their understanding of history by studying the people and events that ushered in the dawn of the major Western and nonWestern ancient civilizations. Geography is of special significance in the development of the human story. Continued emphasis is placed on the everyday lives, problems, and accomplishments of people, their role in developing social, economic, and pol...

1 Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, Canada 2 The Global Environment and Climate Change Centre, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada 3 McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada 4 Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA 5 Dept. of Geography, Trent Un...