Showing posts with label League of Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label League of Nations. Show all posts

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Climatic Determinism at work: Discussions in the League of Nations


Ashwini Tambe published an interesting piece in Theory, Culture & Society (2011 vol. 28 no. 2 109-13): Climate, Race Science and the Age of Consent in the League of Nations, about an episode, when climatic determinism was in full swing as an explanatory tool for differences of humans and societies.