GERMAN GREAT–POWER RELATIONS IN THE PAGES OF SIMPLICISSIMUS, 1896–1914*

ABSTRACT. Wilhelmine Germany had a powerful economy and, after 1898, began construction of a fleet to challenge Great Britain's global power. This article analyses Germany's cultural “will to power” in the period through the eyes of the avant‐garde, Munich‐published weekly magazine Simplicissimus as it examined the series of security crises between 1896 and the outbreak of war in 1914. The magazine was no fan of Wilhelmine militarism, its principal artist having been jailed for criticism of the kaiser, but it showed a deep support for Germany's rise to power on moral grounds. Many illustrations dealt with global power projection through the navy and the need for a suitable security partner within Europe. Its illustrators depicted Great Britain as an immoral world power only Germany might check and France as its preferred security partner to keep Europe at peace.     

THE ORIGINS OF PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHERS IN THE UNITED STATES 1972–1977

The two following reports offer complementary perspectives on the spatial distribution of geographers in the United States. The first of these looks at the changing sources of doctoral degrees and the second addresses the question of where degree holders are currently most successful in practicing their profession.     

GEOGRAPHERS AND THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY*

ABSTRACT. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was the largest, most comprehensive, and most controversial regional development and planning project in U.S. history. Geographers were involved from its inception and made impressive contributions. Aside from the unit area method of data gathering and mapping, little is known about their contributions, some of which were truly ahead of their time. Although their work and recommendations were often discarded and unheeded because of political turbulence, the geographers rarely complained or entered into the political arena. Their work in the TVA has generally gone unheralded and even unappreciated within the geography profession. The primary purpose of this article is to document their contributions.     

A PUBLIC INFORMATION PROGRAM FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

Advances in Earth Science. P. M. Hurley (ed.).

Climates of the World aed their Agricultural Potentialities. J(uan) Papadakis.

Rebuilding Cities. Percy Johnson Marshall.

The Alliance for Progress: Key t o Latin America's Development. J. Warren Nystrom and Nathan A. Haverstock.

Market Potential and Economic Shadow. D. Michael Ray.

Soils, An Introduction to Soils and Plant Growth. Roy L. Donahue.

Guide to Russian Reference Books: Volume 11: History, Historical Sciences, Ethnography, Geography. Karol Maichel, (ed.) J. S. G. Simmons.

Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. Robert C. West and John P. Augelli.

California's Many Climates. Ernest L. Felton.

The Soviet Union, People and Regions. David Hooson.

Planning in the Soviet Union. Philippe J. Bernard. Translated by I. Nove.

Human Nature in Geography. John K. Wright.

Military Geography. Louis C. Peltier and G. Etzel Pearcy.

The Philififiines: Nation of Islands. Alden Cutshall.

The Journals Of ZebuLon Montgomery Pibe with Letters and Related Documents. Donald Jackson (ed.).

The Sabi Valley Irrigation Projects. Wolf Roder.

How to Identify Old Maps and Globes. Raymond Lister.

The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study. Richard Colebrook Harris.

North Atlantic Arena: Water Transport in the World Order. Charles C. Colby.

Continental Drift. G. B. Garland (ed.).

Land Use in Sudan. J. H. G. Lebon.

Uboma: A Socio-Economic and Nutritional Suruey of a Rural Community in Eastern Nigeria. H. A. Oluwasanmi, I. S. Dema, and others.

City and Region. R. E. Dickinson.

An Introduction to Geography. Rhoads Murphey.

A Reporter in Micronesia. Ely Jacques Kahn

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives Water Management and Floods in the Fraser River Basin. W. R. Derrick Sewell.

Human Geografihy. Aime Vincent Perpillou (Tr. by E. D. Laborde).

Dictionary of Geography. Dudley Stamp (ed.).

The Roman City of London. Ralph Merrifield.

Land Behind Baghdad. Robert McC. Adams.

The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico. Robert McC. Adams.

A Preface to Economic Geography. Harold H. McCarty and James B. Lindberg.

Scandinauian Lands, Roy Millward.

The Great American Desert. W. Eugene Hollon.

City and Regional Planning in Poland. Jack C. Fisher (ed.).

Luftbildatlas Schleswig-Holstein. Christian Degn and Uwe Muuss.     

BRAZILIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION*

ABSTRACT. In the late 1980s more than 1 million Brazilians left Brazil without returning. Today an estimated 2 million Brazilians live abroad, 1.2 million of them in the United States. In this article I show that Brazilians migrate for a variety of reasons, including the geographical imagination. Why are so many Brazilians leaving for the United States? What are their geographical imaginations, and how are they described in their migration process? Using primary and secondary data and multiple methods, I address these questions by providing insights into Brazilian migrants' place perceptions, experiences, and reasons for migrating, focusing on the geographical imagination. Those migrants who end up returning to Brazil are more likely to cite financial and curiosity reasons for having migrated. A web of transnational religious and social networks sustains those immigrants who remain in the United States. Reasons for migrating are not economic alone; rather, they are based on interrelated and complex factors that range from adventure to curiosity, the cultural influence of the United States, family members, education, and escape.     

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW: VOLUMES 1–99*

Editors' Note: This essay by Alexander Murphy begins the final set of retrospective works commissioned to celebrate the centennial volume of the Geographical Review. In this group, American Geographical Society Councilors undertake the challenge of reviewing major conceptual approaches or topical fields as presented in the journal's first ninety‐nine volumes and to muse about how those approaches will contribute to the field in its second century. In addition to Murphy, the contributors comprise Councilors Marie Price and Douglas Sherman, as well as a review of fieldwork by Associate Editor Dydia DeLyser and her coauthor, Paul Karolczyk. As much as retrospective views, we hope these essays point the way for scholarship in the coming years.     

THE PRODUCTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF GEOGRAPHERS IN CANADA

This paper considers the appropriateness of typologies of urban retailing areas based on multivariate functional data. The findings of a case study in which statistical and graphical methods were employed within the framework of multivariate ordination are presented. It is shown that the functional attributes of retail areas are closely associated with their location, accessibility, quality, morphology, size, period of development, and socioeconomic character.