
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 31
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 2012
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4411-8624-9 (ISBN)
Description
Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work. With its publication, the cumulative record of geographers' lives and works in GBS exceeds 460 essays. Here, the editors bring forward critical appraisals of six French geographers, and so illustrate the rich traditions of geographical scholarship in that country; of a leading Portuguese figure; a Briton who played a major role in establishing geography in modern New Zealand; and a British woman who pioneered connections between the history of geography in practice and the histories of science and technology. Geographers' lives and geography's making is wonderfully illuminated in international, national and cross-disciplinary 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 *
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-8624-9 (9781441186249)
DOI
CBID168631
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Persons
Hayden Lorimer is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Editor
University of Glasgow, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK.
Content
Introduction Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers \ Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879-1966) Hugh Clout and Avril Maddrell \ Orlando Ribeiro (1911-1997) Suzanne Daveau \ Aime Vincent Perpillou (1902-1976) Hugh Clout \ Two Vidalians: Antoine Vacher (1873-1920) and Rene Musset (1881-1977) Hugh Clout \ Jean Dresch (1905-1994) Hugh Clout \ Andre Cholley (1886-1968) Hugh Clout \ Daniel Faucher (1882-1970) Hugh Clout \ Kenneth Cumberland (1913-2011) Eric Pawson \ Bibliography \ Index