Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2015
176 pages
978-1-4411-0785-5 (ISBN)
Description
The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.
Reviews / Votes
Title mention in Bookseller Buyers Guide. Mention -Book News, February 2009 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. * Journal of Historical Geography *
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0785-5 (9781441107855)
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12/2011
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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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.
Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Content
W D Cooley (1795-1883) Roy Bridges
James Blaut (1927-2005) Kent Matthewson
Michitoshi Odauchi (1875-1954) Toshihiro Okada
William Camden Robert Mayhew
Tycho Brahe Michael Jones
Max Sorre Hugh Clout
Howard Gregor Stephen Jett
Aime Bonpland Stephen Bell
Kate Marsden Liz Baigent
