Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935. He was chief territorial adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles conference and served the Department of State as territorial adviser during World War II.

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  • Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935. He was chief territorial adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles conference and served the Department of State as territorial adviser during World War II. Some of his more notable works include: Forest Physiography (1911) Well-Drilling Methods (1911) South America (1915) The Andes of Southern Peru (1916) The New World-Problems in Political Geography (1921). In 1916 he became associate editor of the Geographical Review. He was associate editor of the Journal of Geography in 1918-19 and editor in 1919-20. In 1921 he became a director of the newly formed Council of Foreign Relations. Bowman served as President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1935 to 1948. Before and during World War II he served on the Council of Foreign Relation's War and Peace Studies as chairman of its territorial group. From 1945 to 1949 he was a CFR vice-president.
  • Isaiah Bowman fue un geógrafo canadiense radicado en Estados Unidos.
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  • Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935. He was chief territorial adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles conference and served the Department of State as territorial adviser during World War II.
  • Isaiah Bowman fue un geógrafo canadiense radicado en Estados Unidos.
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  • Isaiah Bowman
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