Note 85 — II A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

The term “anthropo-geography” derives from the title of Fr. Ratzel’s main work.—“... le domaine si intéressant, mais à peine défriché, de l’anthropogéographie, semble avoir acquis à ce mot le droit de cité dans le langage scientifique.”—L. Metchnikoff, La Civilisation et Les Grands Fleuves Historiques (Paris, 1889), p. 70 and n.—In England, and in America, it is commonly called human geography, after the French “la géographie humaine.” Various names have been proposed for this subject. See also W. Z. Ripley, “Geography and Sociology.” The Viennese Erwin Hanslick, I believe, denominates it “Kulturgeographie.”