Note 116 — II A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Reading edition
2. Aufl., 1905 (Aus Natur und Geisteswelt, 31. Bändchen, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner), 127 pp.—It has been translated into English under the title Man and Earth (London & N. Y., 1906. Reprinted 1914, 223 pp.) by A. S. “from the second amended German edition,” in which are intercalated two chapters: Chapter V, on The British Isles and Britons, by the author; and Chapter VI, on America and the Americans, by the translator.—The first four chapters of a general nature—features of the globe, sea, steppes and deserts, in their influence on civilization, the influence of man on landscape—are followed by four chapters on The British Isles and Britons, America and the Americans, Germany and the Germans, China and the Chinese.