GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Historical Geography, Creative Destruction, Paris Hilton
Document Summary
Ggr240h1 - september 12 2010 - lecture 1. Two reasons - historical geography allows us to know how the past was different, the changes that took palce. 2nd - it also helps us to parrall with the past - Slide 2 - a brief history of historical geography (since 1900) 1950 - cold war, math , geometry - gov"t were driving new scientific innovation. 1970 - a new group of people come that tell that we should not forget how humanity lived. Slide 3 - three themees of recent concern. Geogrpahers have turned into their own field, some may argue that its something used for war, like tactics, and other military. Contextual - a map are all products of content- the result of work - where maps come from and how much they were invested with power. Picture ( polar projectiong was none existing before ww2 , the map is powerfully linked to its context)
