J R Whitaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 966673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J R Whitaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITAKER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peabody |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Erosion of Farmery Sites in the Nashville Basin of Middle Tennessee
1 The term farmstead' is used as a synonym for the uncommon but more precise word farmery, defined in the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language as including the house, barn, work buildings, and surrounding and adjacent yards. ago, there was no pressing need to economize on cropland; whereas there was real need for good garden plots, cropland, and pastures near the house. Even a casual examination of these
Historical geography in school and college
geography is receiving in American schools and colleges. The rise in the United States of geography as a college subject during the first decade of this century included the publication of two notable books on the past geography of our country: Ellen Churchill Semple's American History and Its Geographic Conditions (1903), and Albert Perry Brigham's Geographic Influences in American History (1903). Unfortunately but not surprisingly, these volume…
The College Teacher's Search
Peabody's modern founders
The Peabody scholar
New emphases in geography
In 1921, Isaiah Bowman, then director of the American Geographical Society, published a book entitled The New World. His book was written, as many of you will remember, to bring out the new geographical conditions resulting from World War I. When this war is over, we shall need another book of the same sort, for tremendous changes are under way. In our reaction to these changes, we have begun to remake many phases of our teaching of geography. Fr…
Terrestrial unity
Wildlife Refuges
Sequence and Equilibrium in Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
Sequence and Equilibrium in Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
One of the major problems of the Twentieth Century is the shrinkage of the natural resource base of communities, regions, and nations. Like many other problems of great social import, that of counteracting resource depletion and deterioration lies within no particular scholarly discipline, but transects many. Traditionally, geographers meet the problem most directly in dealing with the destructive, preservative, and meliorative effects of man on …
Place relations in conservation education
World View of Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
World View of Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
A problem of growing concern is the destruction of natural resources and the reaction of that destruction on man himself. Too commonly treated as a phase of the economic nationalism of recent years,' the problem is more properly viewed as world-wide in scope and pre-historic in origin. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have, however, witnessed the tendency of this problem to develop beyond the point where it could easily be solved by migrati…
Distribution of Dairy Farming in Peninsular Ontario
P ENINSULAR Ontario has been described by Derwent Whittlesey as an area dominated, in terms of its agriculture, by commercial dairying; and by Richard Hartshorne as an area in which dairying is a minor element in a highly diversified farm system. 0. E. Baker has classed the entire area as a part of the Hay and Dairy Belt, which includes all of the Peninsula and stops short at the edge of the Shield. A preliminary field study of the area in 1932 m…
The South. Its Economic-Geographic Development
Agricultural Gradients in Southern Ontario
Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation
Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation
Distribution of Dairy Farming in Peninsular Ontario
P ENINSULAR Ontario has been described by Derwent Whittlesey as an area dominated, in terms of its agriculture, by commercial dairying; and by Richard Hartshorne as an area in which dairying is a minor element in a highly diversified farm system. 0. E. Baker has classed the entire area as a part of the Hay and Dairy Belt, which includes all of the Peninsula and stops short at the edge of the Shield. A preliminary field study of the area in 1932 m…
Historical geography in school and college
geography is receiving in American schools and colleges. The rise in the United States of geography as a college subject during the first decade of this century included the publication of two notable books on the past geography of our country: Ellen Churchill Semple's American History and Its Geographic Conditions (1903), and Albert Perry Brigham's Geographic Influences in American History (1903). Unfortunately but not surprisingly, these volume…
Erosion of Farmery Sites in the Nashville Basin of Middle Tennessee
1 The term farmstead' is used as a synonym for the uncommon but more precise word farmery, defined in the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language as including the house, barn, work buildings, and surrounding and adjacent yards. ago, there was no pressing need to economize on cropland; whereas there was real need for good garden plots, cropland, and pastures near the house. Even a casual examination of these
The College Teacher's Search
Terrestrial unity
Place relations in conservation education
Agricultural Gradients in Southern Ontario
Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation
Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation
Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation
Agricultural Gradients in Southern Ontario
The South. Its Economic-Geographic Development
World View of Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
World View of Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
A problem of growing concern is the destruction of natural resources and the reaction of that destruction on man himself. Too commonly treated as a phase of the economic nationalism of recent years,' the problem is more properly viewed as world-wide in scope and pre-historic in origin. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have, however, witnessed the tendency of this problem to develop beyond the point where it could easily be solved by migrati…
Distribution of Dairy Farming in Peninsular Ontario
P ENINSULAR Ontario has been described by Derwent Whittlesey as an area dominated, in terms of its agriculture, by commercial dairying; and by Richard Hartshorne as an area in which dairying is a minor element in a highly diversified farm system. 0. E. Baker has classed the entire area as a part of the Hay and Dairy Belt, which includes all of the Peninsula and stops short at the edge of the Shield. A preliminary field study of the area in 1932 m…
Sequence and Equilibrium in Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
Sequence and Equilibrium in Destruction and Conservation of Natural Resources
One of the major problems of the Twentieth Century is the shrinkage of the natural resource base of communities, regions, and nations. Like many other problems of great social import, that of counteracting resource depletion and deterioration lies within no particular scholarly discipline, but transects many. Traditionally, geographers meet the problem most directly in dealing with the destructive, preservative, and meliorative effects of man on …
Place relations in conservation education
New emphases in geography
In 1921, Isaiah Bowman, then director of the American Geographical Society, published a book entitled The New World. His book was written, as many of you will remember, to bring out the new geographical conditions resulting from World War I. When this war is over, we shall need another book of the same sort, for tremendous changes are under way. In our reaction to these changes, we have begun to remake many phases of our teaching of geography. Fr…
Terrestrial unity
Wildlife Refuges
Peabody's modern founders
The Peabody scholar
The College Teacher's Search
Historical geography in school and college
geography is receiving in American schools and colleges. The rise in the United States of geography as a college subject during the first decade of this century included the publication of two notable books on the past geography of our country: Ellen Churchill Semple's American History and Its Geographic Conditions (1903), and Albert Perry Brigham's Geographic Influences in American History (1903). Unfortunately but not surprisingly, these volume…
Erosion of Farmery Sites in the Nashville Basin of Middle Tennessee
1 The term farmstead' is used as a synonym for the uncommon but more precise word farmery, defined in the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language as including the house, barn, work buildings, and surrounding and adjacent yards. ago, there was no pressing need to economize on cropland; whereas there was real need for good garden plots, cropland, and pastures near the house. Even a casual examination of these
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