
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 29
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 19. November 2010
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-4411-7925-8 (ISBN)
Description
Volume twenty-nine of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies has as its subject matter seven essays covering British and French regionalists, one of the world's leading cultural geographers, a quantitative geographer turned historical geographer and student of geopolitics, a pioneering medical geographer and a leading theoretician of geography's multiple engagements with the urban experience. In their different ways and with reference to Australia, Britain, France, Sweden and the United States of America, all were products of - and direct influences upon - the emergence, strength and thematic diversity of geography in the twentieth century. Geographers 29 thus provides key insight into the shaping of a discipline and of its practitioners in modern context.
Reviews / Votes
While seeking out a particular entry is the most obvious way to use these reference volumes, one of the first rewards of working through a complete volume is encountering the editors' introduction. It would be quite understandable, given the labour that must be involved in preparing the essays for print, if the volumes were introduced by a very brief preface. Instead, each begins with a substantial and stimulatingprolegomenon. These add significant value and help to make the volumes much more than the sum of their biographical parts...The essays that follow...are all superbly executed. -- Diarmid A. Finnegan, Queen's University, Belfast, UK * Journal of Historical Geography *
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
26
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
473 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7925-8 (9781441179258)
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Persons
Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Editor
University of Glasgow, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK.
Content
The Contributors; Introduction - Hayden Lorimer and Charles W.J. Withers; Alan Grant Ogilvie - Charles W.J. Withers; Pierre George-Hugh Clout; Philipe Pinchemel - Hugh Clout; Leslie Wilson Hepple - Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Peter Haggett and Klaus Dodds; Andrew Learmonth - Richard W. Lawton and W.T. Rees Pryce; Dennis E. Cosgrove - Michael J. Heffernan; Allan Pred - Michael J. Watts.