George G. Chisholm wrote the first English-language economic geography textbook, Handbook of commercial geography (1889). Chisholm's Handbook has information about world commodity production and the geographical conditions for trade. Moreover, in 1908 Chisholm left London to become a lecturer in geography at Edinburgh, and he wrote programmatic statements for the new discipline of economic geography. George G. Chisholm's statement points to the important local, placed-factors and their interrelationship that determines the economic geography activities. The context of imperialism, which Chisholm invented influence his work and his conception of economic geography. Also, the Handbook celebrated imperial commerce, the technology that made it
