Re-reading The Geographical Study of Population Groups by M. Aurousseau

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  • Maristella Bergaglio University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Abstract

The pages that follow are taken from anarticle published in 1923 in the GeographicalReview, the official journal of the AmericanGeographical Association. The author, MarcelAurousseau, was born in Australia in 1891 andwas a geographer and geologist. He wrote hismost important geographical papers onpopulation problems and settlements between1920 and 1924, when he worked at theGeophysical Laboratory of the CarnegieInstitution in Washington DC. and for theAmerican Geographical Society of New York.

References

Aurousseau M., “The Geographical Study of Population Groups”, Geographical Review, 13, 2, 1923, pp. 266-282.

Carson R., Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2002.

Chisholm G.G., “Geography and the Population Question”, The Geographical Teacher, 9, 1, 1917, pp. 54-57.

Naumann F., Central Europe, AA Knopf, New York, 1917.

Trewartha G.T., “A Case for Population Geography”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 43, 2, 1953, pp. 71- 97.

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2018-06-19

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Teachings from the past (ed. by Dino Gavinelli and Davide Papotti)