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Clarence James Glacken (1909-August 20, 1989) was Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for a 1967 magnum opus, ''Traces on the Rhodian Shore'', that demonstrated how perceptions of the natural environment shaped the course of human events over millennia. He is recognised as a key contributor to the field of environmental history. ==Background== Glacken was born and raised in Sacramento, California, attending Sacramento Junior College (now Sacramento City College).〔http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/62880/Traces_of_a_Native_Son_Searching_for_Clarence_Glacken Biographical article by Corianna Fish, 2012.〕 He studied history and interdisciplinary studies at Berkeley (BA with highest honors 1930, MA in 1931, Department of Social Institutions). In the 1930s and 1940s, as America faced the Great Depression, he held several government jobs including a job with the Farm Security Administration assisting refugees fleeing the Mid West Dust Bowl and unemployment, in the Central Valley of California. In 1937, he travelled alone for a year through Europe and Asia, sparking his interest in the relationship between human ideas and the natural world. In 1941, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, becoming an analyst and expert in Japanese language and culture. Discharged at the end of the war he took a job in Korea at the military government's Bureau of Health and Welfare, and found time for some geographical study of land cover change. These experiences experience led to a desire to pursue scholarship. He finished a PhD in Geography at Johns Hopkins University when in his forties, called “The Idea of the Habitable World.” (1949-1951). Later he undertook an ethnography of three villages in Okinawa, using his language skills, working for the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Council from 1951-2. The study was later published as a book (Glacken, 1955). In 1952, he was appointed by Carl Sauer as Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, later becoming Professor. He pursued varied research interests and attended the landmark conference, ''Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth'' in 1955, led by colleague Carl Sauer. Glacken was Chair of the Berkeley Geography Department in the late 1960s, at a time of upheaval. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown in 1970, followed by a heart attack. In his last decade, as interest in his environmental ideas grew, he remained severely depressed and mentally ill, and although he completed a sequel to ''Traces on the Rhodian Shore'' in 1982 dealing with human-environment relationships in the 20th century, the manuscript was returned by University of California Press. He destroyed his copies, and only fragments survive. There is a plan to publish them.〔''Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken''. (edited by S. Ravi Rajan, Adam Romero and Michael Watts. Accepted for publication by the University of Virginia Press 2013.〕 He died in Sacramento at the age of 80, pre-deceased by his first wife (d.1941). His second wife was Mildred Mosher (b. 1913 in Pomona, CA died around 1982) with whom he had 2 children - the novelist Karen Kijewski, and a son Michael. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clarence Glacken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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