Autoren-Bilder

Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889–1975)

Autor von The Early Spanish Main

32+ Werke 338 Mitglieder 2 Rezensionen

Über den Autor

Born in Missouri and educated at the University of Chicago, Carl Sauer led a varied professional life. Among other things, he was a teacher, did fieldwork in geography and other subjects, and worked for such corporations as Rand McNally. Sauer believed that, because human beings have an enormous mehr anzeigen and far-reaching impact on Earth, the study of history and other disciplines would serve to enhance people's geographic understanding. For this reason, he studied such diverse subjects as archaeology and sociology. He was especially interested in the origins of agriculture and in whether the earliest crops bred and grown were seed or root crops. Sauer is credited with the development and modernization of geographical field resource techniques. Together with Wellington Jones, he provided geographers in the midwestern United States with the tools they needed to observe and map the physical and cultural aspects of that region. These techniques came to be used successfully in such projects as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Sauer was also interested in the American Southwest and in Mexico and produced works on those areas. One of the most notable of these was Pueblo Sites in Southeastern Arizona (1930). (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

Werke von Carl Ortwin Sauer

The Early Spanish Main (1966) 67 Exemplare
Northern Mists (1968) 39 Exemplare
Selected Essays, 1963-1975 (1981) 24 Exemplare
The Road to Cibola (1980) 3 Exemplare

Zugehörige Werke

New World Journal, Vol. 1, No.4 (1979) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
New World Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
New World Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2/3 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

Getagged

Wissenswertes

Geburtstag
1889-12-24
Todestag
1975-07-18
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
USA
Wohnorte
Warrenton, Missouri, USA (birth)
Ausbildung
University of Chicago (PhD)
Berufe
geographer

Mitglieder

Rezensionen

Dr. Sauer was a geographer rather than a student of the politics of exploration, as Hugh Thomas is. His survey of the misuse of the islands of the Caribbean islands and their adjacent coasts is clear and readable. Being a student of how the first colonisation efforts worked out from a point of view of the native populations, human, animal and plants, is a vital dimension to add to the simplistic vision of Spanish expansion from Columbus to the dawn of Cortes' efforts on the mainland. It sets the stage for that phase quite well. A book that has gone deservedly through several reprint..… (mehr)
 
Gekennzeichnet
DinadansFriend | Dec 25, 2020 |
A slightly dated account of the origins of agriculture & particular crop items with a puzzling emphasis on the difference between propagation by seed vs cutting.
Read Samoa Jan 2004
 
Gekennzeichnet
mbmackay | Nov 29, 2015 |

Dir gefällt vielleicht auch

Nahestehende Autoren

Statistikseite

Werke
32
Auch von
3
Mitglieder
338
Beliebtheit
#70,454
Bewertung
3.9
Rezensionen
2
ISBNs
27
Sprachen
1

Diagramme & Grafiken