1st Edition
Human Geography A History for the Twenty-First Century
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Human Geography' examines the major trends, debates, research and conceptual evolution of human geography during the twentieth century. Considering each of the subject's primary subfields in turn, it addresses developments in both continental European and Anglo-American geography, providing a cutting-edge evaluation of each. Written clearly and accessibly by leading researchers, the book... Read more
Preface
Chapter 1: Geographical Visions: the Evolution of Human Geographic Thought in the 20th Century by Peter Gould (Penn State) and Ulf Strohmayer (NUI, Galway)
Chapter 2: Cultural Geography: place and landscape between continuity and change by Paul Claval (Paris-IV) and J. Nicholas Entrikin (UCLA)
Chapter 3: Economic Geography: towards the Century of Globalisation by Georges Benko (Paris-I) and Allen J Scott (UCLA)
Chapter 4: Historical Geography: Locating Time in the Spaces of Modernity by Mark Bassin (UCL) and Vincent Berdoulay (Pau)
Chapter 5: Political Geography: Spaces Between War and Peace by Peter J Taylor (Loughborough) and Herman van der Wusten (Amsterdam)
Chapter 6: Social Geography: Looking for Society in its Spaces by Chris Philo (Glasgow) and Ola Söderström (Neuchâtel)
Conclusion
Chapter 1: Geographical Visions: the Evolution of Human Geographic Thought in the 20th Century by Peter Gould (Penn State) and Ulf Strohmayer (NUI, Galway)
Chapter 2: Cultural Geography: place and landscape between continuity and change by Paul Claval (Paris-IV) and J. Nicholas Entrikin (UCLA)
Chapter 3: Economic Geography: towards the Century of Globalisation by Georges Benko (Paris-I) and Allen J Scott (UCLA)
Chapter 4: Historical Geography: Locating Time in the Spaces of Modernity by Mark Bassin (UCL) and Vincent Berdoulay (Pau)
Chapter 5: Political Geography: Spaces Between War and Peace by Peter J Taylor (Loughborough) and Herman van der Wusten (Amsterdam)
Chapter 6: Social Geography: Looking for Society in its Spaces by Chris Philo (Glasgow) and Ola Söderström (Neuchâtel)
Conclusion
Biography
Ulf Strohmayer is Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Georges Benko is Lecturer at the L'Université Paris 1.
The editors previously combined on Geography, History and Social Science (Kluwer, 1995) and Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity (Blackwell, 1997).
'Up-to-date, comprehensive and truly cosmopolitan.'
Mr P Hubbard, Loughborough University
