Ellen Churchill Semple ( Eng. Ellen Churchill Semple , January 8, 1863 - May 8, 1932) is an American geographer. Ellen was born in Louisville. She was the youngest child among the five children of Alexander Bonner Sample and Emeryna Price. Her name is primarily associated with works on anthropogeography and environmentalism (the doctrine of the environment). In a number of her books and articles, she introduces the English-speaking society with certain aspects of the work of the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel . It is generally accepted that Sample was particularly interested in natural determinism — the theory that the physical environment determines culture more than social conditions; however, her later work emphasizes the influence of the environment as opposed to the theory of the natural determinism of culture; thus, it reflected widespread academic dissatisfaction in the post- World War I era with the theory of natural determinism. Sample studied at Vassar College and at the University of Leipzig. She taught at the University of Chicago and at Clark University . Died in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ellen C. Semple Elementary School in Louisville is named after her. She was buried at the Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville.
| Ellen Churchill Sample | |
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| Ellen churchill semple | |
| Date of Birth | January 8, 1863 |
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| Date of death | May 8, 1932 (69 years old) |
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| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | geographer |
| Awards and prizes | Callum Medal |
Works
- “Civilization is an economic fact”, 1896
- “The influence of the Appalachian barrier on colonial history”, 1897
- "Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: research in the field of anthropogeography", 1901
- American History and Its Geographical Conditions, 1903
- "The villages of the north bank of the lower course of the St. Lawrence River", 1904
- “The influence of the geographical environment: based on Ratzel’s anthropogeography system”, 1911
- “The barrier border of the Mediterranean basin and its gaps in the north as the driving forces of history”, 1915
- "Pirate shores of the Mediterranean", 1916
- “Texts of the Ukrainian“ World ”: with maps, 1918
- "The ancient route at the foot of the mountains of Northern Mesopotamia", 1919
- “Geographical factors of grain trade in the antique Mediterranean”, 1921
- "The influence of geographical conditions on animal husbandry in the ancient Mediterranean", 1922
- "Temporal capes of the ancient Mediterranean", 1927
- "Agriculture of the Ancient Mediterranean", 1928
- “Gardens of Pleasures of the Antique Mediterranean”, 1929
- “Geography of the Mediterranean: its connection with ancient history”, 1931
Literature
- Keighren, Innes M. "Bringing geography to the book: charting the reception of Influences of geographic environment ." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31, no. 4 (2006): 525-40.
- Keighren, Innes M. Bringing geography to book: Ellen Semple and the reception of geographical knowledge . London: IB Tauris, 2010.
- "Semple, Ellen Churchill." Notable American Women. Vol. 2, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975
- worldcat.org Accessed August 27, 2007
- Ellen Churchill Semple works in the Gutenberg project