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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
R J Johnston; Michael Williams, geography |
ISBN: | 0197262864 9780197262863 |
OCLC Number: | 907021607 |
Notes: | Published for the British Academy. |
Description: | XVII, 674 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | British geography 1500-1900: an imprecise review ; The institutionalisation of geography as an academic discipline ; Physical geography and geography as an environmental science ; The domestication of the earth: humans and environments in prehistoric times ; The creation of humanised landscapes ; People and the contemporary environment ; Place description, regional geography and area studies: the chorographic inheritance ; The passion of place ; Order in space: geography as a discipline in distance ; Global, national and local ; Geography displayed: maps and mapping ; ; The geographical underpinning of society and its radical transformation ; Geography applied ; Geographers and environmental change ; The geography of disease distributions ; Geographers and the urban century ; Geographers and the fragmented city ; Geographers and the regional problem ; Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions ; Geographers, ethics and social concern |
Responsibility: | ed. by Ron Johnston and Michael Williams. |
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an impressive collection of essays penned by a star-studded cast. * Hugh Clout, Australian Geographical Studies * Each essay is scholarly, highly informative, and richly referenced ... this large tome is not a difficult read and is highly appropriate for dipping into ... most welcome. * Environment and Planning * A Century of British Geography is a finely produced and finely written volume. * Trevor Barnes, Journal of Historical Geography * Read more...

