Note 265 — II A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

See Ripley, Races of Europe (1899), p. 11; cf. the references given there, and in the note on the same page.—Cf. also Ellsworth Huntington’s Palestine and its Transformation (1910), and his suggestive articles on “Changes of Climate and History” (in The American Historical Review for January, 1913, vol. 18, pp. 213–32) [for references to other writings on the subject by the same author,—and by A. T. Olmstead—cf. p. 214 n.]; on “Climate and Civilization” (in Harper’s Magazine for February, 1915, vol. 130, pp. 367–73); on “Is Civilization Determined by Climate?” (ibid. May, 1915, pp. 943–51); a new book of his, entitled Civilization and Climate (333 pp.), is announced for publication by the Yale Univ. Press.