历史地理学意义(国外英语资料).doc

历史地理学意义 Historical geography has existed and developed for a long time as an auxiliary subject of history and geography. The study of historical geography is of great significance to the development of geography and science, as well as to the struggle for the transformation of nature. First, the study of historical geography is the need of the development of modern geography. One of the basic arguments of historical geography is that the factors of human living environment are complex, influencing and constraining each other, and are in constant change and development. Not all the geographical phenomenon today since ancient times is so, but from a different era in the development of geographical evolution, rooted in the past geographical, geographical phenomenon born out of thin air static or never existed. Therefore, for any geographical phenomenon, understand its past only, in order to better understand it now, then you should put the past era of geography recover, and the geographical phenomenon has been restored, according to the order of historical development, linking up the research, to find causes and evolution the development of the law, so as to clarify the formation and characteristics of the current geographic phenomenon, this is the geography research must resort to the historical geography. The study of the geographical development and laws of the various departments of historical geography is very important to the development and research of the relevant departments of the current geographic sciences. For example, in the modern economic geography field, for the study of any economic regions, we must understand its occurrence and development process, and to correctly estimate the effect of the natural conditions in the distribution of economic regions and individual sectors of the economy in this, we must use the viewpoint and the method of history and historical materials, to explore the economic phenomenon in the different phases of the development