J. Russell Smith: Geographer, Educator, and Conservationist

At the end of the nineteenth century, revolutionary developments began to take place in American geography. The humanization of the subject proceeded at a rapid pace, as did the application of geography to other fields. The changes were initiated at the college level, particularly in the schools of business, and later permeated the secondary and elementary levels.

J. Russell Smith, Geographer, Educator, and Conservationist is a two-fold study of these developments. In part, it is an historic...