Environment and Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2199035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Griffith Taylor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1934 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-33 |
| Publication date | 1934-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/216649 |
| OpenAlex | W2064129789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Europe during the one thousand years from A.D. 900 appears to be the best region and period for a study of the environmental factors determining the evolution of a nation. Seventy-four homogeneous regions appear. Grouping and indexing these according to length of national life, or independent government, two distinct zones are formed: a zone of high-index nations, extending from Iceland to Aragon; and a low-index zone from Lapland to Morea and Sicily. For simplification the three medium-index zones are for the most part ignored, leaving the two contrasting groups which may be used a number of correlations. As for religion and race the high-index regions appear to be strongly Protestant and Nordic, and the low-index regions strongly Greek Church and Alpine. No causal relationship is assumed. Good rainfall seems favorable to national continuity, temperature has practically no bearing, and rugged regions on the whole are not favorable for continued national growth. Death-rates are considerably lower in regions of high than in those of low national index
Geography · Homogeneous · Index (typography) · National government · Physical geography · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Mathematics · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Tree-ring climate responses
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1935 - 2005 (71) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |