1st Edition

Regional Concept The Anglo-American Leaders

432 Pages

by Routledge

432 Pages

by Routledge

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Originally published in 1976 this book provides a source of essential material on the founding fathers of British and American geography. An assessment of 150 years, the period in which geography became an organized discipline, the book concentrates on the development of the regional concept. This concept seeks to understand the areal associations of human and physical phenomena and their... Read more

1.The Background Part 1: The United Kingdom 2. A Review 3. Patrick Geddes, 1854-1932 4. Halford J. Mackinder, 1861-1947 5. Andrew J. Herbertson, 1865-1915 6. The Second Generation 7. The Third Generation 8. Founders of the Main Centres I: Edinburgh II: Cambridge III: London IV: The Commonwealth Leader: Thomas Griffith Taylor 9. The Royal Geographical Society 10. Inter-War Trends 11. Post-War Trends Part 2: America 2. A Review 13. William Morris Davis, 1850-1934 14. Mark Jefferson, 1863-1949 15. Albert Perry Brigham, 1889-1929 16. J Russell Smith, 1874-1966 17. The Chicago Sequence 18. Ellen Churchill Semple 1863-1932 19. Ellsworth Huntingdon, 1876-1947 20. The Second Generation 21. The American Geographical Society 22. Carl Ortwin Sauer, 1889-1975 23. The Third Generation 24. Post-War Trends in the USA