Glenn Thomas Trewartha Explained

Glenn Thomas Trewartha (1896 – 1984)^[1] was an American geographer of Cornish American descent.^[2]

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, with a Ph.D. in 1924. He taught at the University of Wisconsin.^[3]

He gave an address to the Association of American Geographers, "A Case for Population Geography", in which he argued that "fundamentally geography is anthropocentric, and if such is the case, that numbers, densities and qualities of the population provide the essential background for all geography. Population provide the essential background for all geography. Population is the point of reference from which all other elements are observed, and from which they all singly and collectively derive significance and meaning".^[4] He also wrote about climate, explaining that the atmosphere was like "a pane of glass in a greenhouse... thus maintaining surface temperatures considerably higher than they otherwise would be."^{[5] [6]}

Awards

• 1926 Guggenheim Fellowship^[7]

Works

• "The earliest map of Galena, Illinois" Wisconsin Magazine Of History. Volume: 23 /Issue: 1 (1939–1940) ^[8]
• A Reconnaissance geography of Japan, University of Wisconsin, 1934
• Elements of geography physical and cultural, Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Vernor Clifford Finch, Mc Graw-Hill, 1942
• Japan, a physical, cultural and regional geography, University of Wisconsin press, 1945
• An introduction to climate, McGraw-Hill, 1954
• Japan, a geography, Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin press, 1965
• An introduction to climate McGraw-Hill, 1968
• The More developed realm: a geography of its population, Editor Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Pergamon Press, 1978,
• The Earth's problem climates, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, ^[9]

See also

• Trewartha climate classification

External links

• "Booknotes", American Sociological Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jun., 1945), pp. 452–456
• Forum: Fifty years since Trewartha: The Past, Present, and Future of Population Geography
• Hartshorne, R. and Borchert, J. (1988), Glenn T. Trewartha, 1896–1984. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 78: 728–735.

Notes and References

1. "Wisconsin history:an annotated bibliography," Barbara Dotts Paul and Justus F. Paul, 1988, pg. 12
2. Rowse, A. L. The Cousin Jacks, The Cornish in America
3. Web site: UW-Madison Department of Geoscience - History of the Department . 2010-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120302212045/http://www.geology.wisc.edu/dept_info/history.html . 2012-03-02 . dead .
4. Trewartha, G. T. (1953). A case for population geography. Annals of the Association of American geographers, 43(2), 71-97.(page 83)
5. Web site: Global Warming: From Theory to Fact. NPR.org. 19 May 2019. 12 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170212092253/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10307560. live.
6. Web site: Climate Change: Listeners' Questions. NPR.org. 19 May 2019. 8 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210108042147/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10011897. live.
7. Web site: Glenn Thomas Trewartha - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2010-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622015419/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14829-glenn-thomas-trewartha . 2011-06-22 . dead .
8. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110610221207/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=browse&volume=23&articleID=12383 . 2011-06-10 . dead .
9. Web site: Glenn Thomas Trewartha (B.1896, d.----) All publications . 2010-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120303233920/http://www.getcited.org/mbrx/PT/99/MBR/10202383 . 2012-03-03 . dead .