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Discuss the genetic classification of boundaries suggested by Hartshorne.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Richard Hartshorne (1936) proposed that international boundaries be classified not by what they look like on the ground but by when they were drawn relative to the evolution of the cultural landscape they divide.

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