Ellsworth Huntington
Ellsworth Huntington (
1876 –
1947) was a professor of
economics at
Yale University during the early
20th century, known for his studies on
climatic determinism,
economic growth and
economic geography. He served as the President of the Board of Directors of the
American Eugenics Society.
He taught at
Euphrates College,
Turkey (1897–1901); accompanied the
Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905–1906) expeditions to
central Asia; and wrote of his Asian experiences in
Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and
The Pulse of Asia (1907). He taught geography at
Yale (1907–1915) and from 1917 was a
research associate there, devoting his time chiefly to
climatic and
anthropogeographic studies.
The Climatic Factor (1914),
Civilization and Climate (1915, rev. ed. 1924), and, with S. S. Visher,
Climatic Changes (1922) were among his works. He also wrote
Principles of Human Geography (with S. W. Cushing, 5th ed. 1940) and
Mainsprings of Civilization (1945)
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