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The discipline of geography, both ancient and “new”, is periodically subject to centrifugal tendencies, threatening its integrity and cohesion as a subject. From very different traditions, this question of philosophical “unity” has lain at the heart of many controversies and re-examinations of the value and “place” of geography in the Soviet Union and the United States in recent years, both as an academic subject and with respect to its practical applicability. This article attempts a comparative and personal view of what has happened to geography, mainly over the last quarter of a century, in these two countries, focussed on this “unity” question.
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Hooson, D. The unity of geography in the USA and the USSR. GeoJournal 1, 5–12 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00195535
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