THE HISTORY OF POSTWAR SOCIAL SCIENCE

Not to be cited without the author’s consent Although some aspects of the study of geography are common across a large number of countries, nevertheless a marked ‘geography of geographies ’ has emerged since the Second World War. Until then, there was considerable common ground that geography was the study of areal differentiation – or chorology; it described and provided accounts for inter-regional differences in environments, human activities, and the interactions between the two. The widely-adopted foundations for such an approach were laid down by German and French geographers – with a major American defence of that approach published in 1939 (Hartshorne, 1939; see als