Richard Hartshorne

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Richard Hartshorne (1899, Kittanning, Pennsylvania, – 1992), was a prominent American geographer. He completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago (1924), then taught at the University of Minnesota (1924–40) and the University of Wisconsin (1940–70), with war-time interruption. He is the author of The Nature of Geography (1939), Perspective on the Nature of Geography (1959), and, with Mark Hoyt Ingraham, The Academic Citizen (1970). Among his brothers was the prominent philosopher Charles Hartshorne.

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"Location as a Factor in Geography", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1927), pp. 92-99

"Geographic and Political Boundaries in Upper SilesiaGeographic and Political Boundaries in Upper Silesia", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1933), pp. 195-228

"Recent Developments in Political Geography, I", The American Political Science Review, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Oct., 1935), pp. 785-804.

"Recent Developments in Political Geography, II", The American Political Science Review, Vol. 29, No. 6 (Dec., 1935), pp. 943-966

"Six Standard Seasons of the Year", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1938), pp. 165-178 "The Concepts of 'Raison d'Être' and 'Maturity' of States; Illustrated from the Mid-Danube Area", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 30, pp. 59-60; 1940.

"The Politico-Geographic Pattern of the World", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 218, Public Policy in a World at War (Nov., 1941), pp. 45-57