...Geography, a term used in Europe to describe land, was used in ancient Greece, so economic geography, which describes the spatial distribution of economic activities, products, and transportation routes in various regions, can be said to have existed since ancient times. Such descriptions were passed down as knowledge necessary for commercial activities, and in the 19th century came to be known as commercial geography (sometimes translated as product geography). In modern geography, which was established in the second half of the 19th century, the field that explains regional differences in economic phenomena or the process of regional differentiation was considered to be a branch of geography, and terms such as agricultural geography, industrial geography, and transportation geography came to be used according to the economic activities that were the subject of the field. *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "commercial geography" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…土地に関する記述としての地理学geographyという言葉がヨーロッパでは古代ギリシアで使われていたことからすると,各地の経済活動や産物,交通路などの空間的分布を記述するという意味での経済地理学も,古代から存在していたといえる。このような記述は商業活動に必要な知識として継承され,19世紀には商業地理学commercial geography(物産地理と訳されることもあった)と通称されるようになった。 19世紀後半に成立した近代地理学では,経済現象の地域的差異または地域的分化の過程を説明する分野が経済地理学として,地理学の一分野をなすと考えられ,その対象とする経済活動に従って農業地理学,工業地理学,交通地理学などの用語も用いられるようになった。… ※「commercial geography」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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