The last Länderkundler in the Tropics: German geography on agrarian colonization in Latin America from 1947 to 1975.
The project analyzes how the last generation of regional geographers (Länderkundler) reformulated classical concepts of German geography to explain agrarian colonization in Latin America between 1945 and 1970. In the mid-20th century, German geographers studied agrarian colonization in the Caribbean lowlands of Central America, the plains of Colombia and Venezuela, the humid jungles of the… Read More The last Länderkundler in the Tropics: German geography on agrarian colonization in Latin America from 1947 to 1975.