3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historical geographer at Syracuse who wrote The Shaping of America — a four-volume historical geography of the United States tracing how geography, colonization, and settlement produced the distinctive American regional landscapes — one of the most comprehensive geographical accounts of American development.
Jared Diamond's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning account — arguing that Eurasian civilizations came to dominate the world because of geographic advantages (domesticable crops and animals, east-west axis allowing diffusion, resulting crowd disease immunity) not racial superiority — the foundational text of big history.
Peter Frankopan's 2015 reinterpretation of world history centered on Central Asia and the Silk Roads rather than Western Europe — arguing that the region between China and the Mediterranean has always been the world's true center of gravity.