脡lis茅e Reclus (Author of Anarchy, Geography, Modernity)

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脡lis茅e Reclus

Born

in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France

March 15, 1830

Died

July 04, 1905

Genre

Geography, Politics, Travel

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脡lis茅e Reclus, also known as Jacques 脡lis茅e Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle G茅ographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875 - 1894). In 1892 he was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite his having been banished from France because of his political activism.

Reclus was the second son of a Protestant pastor and his wife. From the family of fourteen children, several, including his brother and fellow geographer On茅sime Reclus, went on to achieve renown either as men of letters, politicians or members of the learned professions.

Reclus began his educat 脡lis茅e Reclus, also known as Jacques 脡lis茅e Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle G茅ographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875 - 1894). In 1892 he was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite his having been banished from France because of his political activism.

Reclus was the second son of a Protestant pastor and his wife. From the family of fourteen children, several, including his brother and fellow geographer On茅sime Reclus, went on to achieve renown either as men of letters, politicians or members of the learned professions.

Reclus began his education in Rhenish Prussia, and continued higher studies at the Protestant college of Montauban. He completed his studies at University of Berlin, where he followed a long course of geography under Carl Ritter.

Withdrawing from France because of political events of December 1851, he spent the next six years (1852 - 1857) traveling and working in Great Britain, the United States, Central America, and Colombia. Arriving in Louisiana in 1853, Reclus worked for about two and a half years as a tutor to the children of Septime and F茅licit茅 Fortier at their plantation F茅licit茅, located about 50 miles upriver from New Orleans. He recounted his passage through the Mississippi river delta and impressions of antebellum New Orleans and the state in Fragment d'un voyage 谩 Louisiane, published in 1855.

On his return to Paris, Reclus contributed to the Revue des deux mondes, the Tour du monde and other periodicals, a large number of articles embodying the results of his geographical work. Among other works of this period was the short book Histoire d鈥檜n ruisseau, in which he traced the development of a great river from source to mouth. From 1867 - 1868 he published La Terre; description des ph茅nom猫nes de la vie du globe in two volumes.

During the 1870 siege of Paris, Reclus shared in the aerostatic operations conducted by F茅lix Nadar, and also served in the National Guard. As a member of the Association Nationale des Travailleurs, he published a hostile manifesto against the government of Versailles in support of the Paris Commune of 1871 in the Cri du Peuple.

Continuing to serve in the National Guard, now in open revolt, Reclus was taken prisoner on April 5, and on November 16 was sentenced to deportation for life. Because of intervention by supporters from England, the sentence was commuted in January 1872 to perpetual banishment from France.

After a short visit to Italy, Reclus settled at Clarens, Switzerland, where he resumed his literary labours and produced Histoire d鈥檜ne montagne, a companion to Histoire d鈥檜n ruisseau. There he wrote nearly the whole of his work, La Nouvelle G茅ographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, "an examination of every continent and country in terms of the effects that geographic features like rivers and mountains had on human populations鈥攁nd vice versa," This compilation was profusely illustrated with maps, plans, and engravings. It was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1892. An English edition appeared simultaneously, also in 19 volumes, the first four by E. G. Ravenstein, the rest by A.H. Keane. Reclus's writings were characterized by extreme accuracy and brilliant exposition, which gave them permanent literary and scientific value. ...more

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	Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elis茅e Reclus by 脡lis茅e Reclus, John P. Clark (Editor), Camille Martin (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.”
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“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly well-ordered. Take, for instance, our great cities, the leaders of civilization, especially the most populous, and, in many respects, the first of all 鈥� the immense London, which gathers to herself the riches of the world, whose every warehouse is worth a king鈥檚 ransom; where are to be found enough, and more than enough, of food and clothing for the needs of the teeming millions that throng her streets in greater numbers than the ants which swarm in the never-ending labyrinth of their subterranean galleries. And yet鈥eside these untold splendors, want is consuming the vitals of entire populations, and it is only sporadically that the fortunate for whom these hoards are amassed hear, as barely a muffled wailing, the bitter cry which rises eternally from those unseen depths.”
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“In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-鈥� and this fact is attested to in countless medical inquests-鈥� adulterate provisions and drink, sell pernicious substances as wholesome food, and kill by slow poisoning鈥� Let people say what they will, slavery, which abolitionists strove so gallantly to extirpate in America, prevails in another form in every civilized country; for entire populations, placed between the alternatives of death by starvation and toils which they detest, are constrained to choose the latter. And if we would deal frankly with the barbarous society to which we belong, we must acknowledge that murder, albeit disguised under a thousand insidious and scientific forms, still, as in the times of primitive savagery, terminates the majority of lives.”
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