ABSTRACT
Geography in North America displayed the evidence of national and international influence that is characteristic of the discipline as a whole, when professors and students began or resumed their studies after the end of the Second World War. In 1945 programmes of graduate training in geography were available in 28 universities in the United States and also at the University of Toronto in Canada. It is also significant that American Geography: Inventory and Prospect includes chapters devoted to elements of both physical and human geography but no chapter devoted to their relationship. Although full comprehension of Die zentralen Orte in Suddeutschland was delayed until a translation of it was published in 1966, graduate students soon became as well aware of Christaller's hexagons as they had been familiar with Koppen's climatic formulae. Membership in the Association of American Geographers (AAG) reached a peak of 6,994 in December of 1975, a reflection of steady growth during the post-war period.
