His studies focused on agricultural microgeography (geographical activity of villagers), cultural ecology, theory of nationalism, philosophy of science, historiography and the relations between the First and the Third World.
[1] He entered the University of Chicago in 1944 at the age of sixteen, as part of the program for advanced high-school students, and achieved two bachelor's degrees (in 1948 and 1950).
In 1967 he returned to the United States for a position at Clark University, where in 1969 he helped establish the Antipode Journal and the Union of Socialist Geographers.
[1] Blaut died from heart failure at his home on November 11, 2000, before he had completed a trilogy of books criticizing Eurocentric theories of a "European miracle".
The series begins with The Colonizer’s Model of the World and is followed by the Eight Eurocentric Historians in which he accuses Max Weber, Lynn White, Robert Brenner, Jared Diamond, Eric Jones, Michael Mann, John A.