The Makers of Modern Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

The Makers of Modern Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: Robert E. Dickinson

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317907336

Category: Social Science

Page: 320

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This book examines the works of the outstanding makers of modern geography and demonstrates the consistency of idea and purpose in their work. Geography as an explicitly defined field of knowledge is more than two thousand years old, but as a university subject, geography is only 150 years old, and in this period it has developed hugely. This study traces the development of modern geography as an organized body of knowledge, in the light of the works of its foremost German and French contributors.
The Makers of Modern Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Language: en
Pages: 320

The Makers of Modern Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Authors: Robert E. Dickinson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: Routledge

This book examines the works of the outstanding makers of modern geography and demonstrates the consistency of idea and purpose in their work. Geography as an explicitly defined field of knowledge is more than two thousand years old, but as a university subject, geography is only 150 years old, and
The Changing Nature of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Language: en
Pages: 163

The Changing Nature of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Authors: Roger Minshull
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: Routledge

This book is an introduction to the nature of geography. There are detailed sections on content, methods and purposes and an attempt is made to distinguish progress from those changes which are merely fashion and those which result in genuine progress. One of these, resulting partly from the adoption of
The Future of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Language: en
Pages: 348

The Future of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Authors: Ron Johnston
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: Routledge

The chapters in this book address fundamental questions of the nature and purpose of geography, scrutinising its contents, philosophy and methodology. Aimed at undergraduates its purpose is to broaden the debate about what geography had become during the 1980s and what shape it might take in the future.
David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Language: en
Pages: 226

David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Authors: John L. Paterson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: Routledge

The emphasis of this book is to explore two major philosophical influences in contemporary human geography, namely logical positivism and Marxism, and to explore the relationships between philosophy, methodology and geographical research. Rather than being a biography of David Harvey, the book contributes to the understanding of one of the
The Scope of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Language: en
Pages: 260

The Scope of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Authors: Rhoads Murphey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: Routledge

This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more