Exploration & Journeys
Civilization and Climate
Ellsworth Huntington
2026
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Huntington believed the weather made civilisations, and he had the charts to prove it. Written when climate was thought to explain why some nations ruled and others were ruled, this is the confident case for a theory that mapped human energy onto temperature bands. It is worth hearing exactly as argued, because the century that believed it built policy on it.
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19 chapters
- 1PREFACE. Preface to First Edition, Preface to Third Edition.9m
- 2INTRODUCTION1h 5m
- 3RACE OR PLACE51m
- 4THE WHITE MAN IN THE TROPICS43m
- 5THE EFFECT OF THE SEASONS1h 2m
- 6THE EFFECT OF HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE45m
- 7WORK AND WEATHER33m
- 8HEALTH AND THE ATMOSPHERE39m
- 9MORTALITY, MOISTURE, AND VARIABILITY35m
- 10HEALTH AND WEATHER45m
- 11THE IDEAL CLIMATE41m
- 12THE DISTRIBUTION OF CIVILIZATION52m
- 13VITALITY AND EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES28m
- 14THE CONDITIONS OF CIVILIZATION45m
- 15THE SHIFTING OF CLIMATIC ZONES42m
- 16THE PULSATORY HYPOTHESIS AND ITS CRITICS21m
- 17THE SHIFTING CENTERS OF CIVILIZATION38m
- 18ABORIGINAL AMERICA AND MODERN AUSTRALIA43m
- 19THE CLIMATIC HYPOTHESIS OF CIVILIZATION53m
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