David N. Livingstone, “Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
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Montesquieu and the Empire of the Climate
Pereira is also a geographer. He's very interested in the location of these various peoples and their movements, correlates that to time. Moving into the 18th century, you pick up now somebody who in a sense is arguing against Pereira but nonetheless is working in a very geographical framework. How does Montesquieu fit into the story? Yes. It seems to be that geography has to do both with the locations in which theories are developed but also with the parallel development of the field of geography.
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