The Theory of Environment, part 1

Note 183 — II A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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Ibid., p. 185; 364. For a general statement on the significance of rivers, cf. ibid., pp. 188–90. The particular nature of the rivers of the “territoire des civilisations fluviales” imposed on the inhabitants the yoke of despotism.—Ibid., p. 161.

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