"Archiving Areas: The Ethnogeographic Board and the Second World War"

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Summary

Discusses the importance of geography to American mobilization during World War II, and the role of the Ethnogeographic Board, headquartered at the Smithsonian, in that work and its effect on military practices.

Subject

Ethnogeographic Board

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Contained within

Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95, No. 3 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • September 2005
  • Military
  • 1933-1945

Topic

  • Geography
  • WW II
  • Wartime Activities
  • Science
  • Ethnology
  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Government policy
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Science and state
  • United States--History

Place

United States

Physical description

Number of pages : 17; Page numbers : 663-679

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