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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459103203321

Titolo

Geographers . Volume 29 [[electronic resource] ] : biobibliographical studies / / edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles Withers ; on behalf of the  Commission on the History of Geographical Thought of the International Geographical Union and the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y., : Continuum, 2010

ISBN

1-4742-2720-1

1-282-87182-X

9786612871825

1-4411-0672-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Geographers : biobibliographical studies

Altri autori (Persone)

LorimerHayden

WithersCharles W. J

Disciplina

910.922

Soggetti

Geographers

Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published on behalf of the Commission on the History of Geographical Thought of the International Geographical Union and the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Contributors -- Introduction - Hayden Lorimer and Charles W.J. Withers -- Alan Grant Ogilvie - Charles W.J. Withers \  Pierre George - Hugh Clout -- Philipe Pinchemel - Hugh Clout -- Leslie Wilson Hepple - Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Peter Haggett and Klaus Dodds -- Andrew Learmonth - Richard W. Lawton and W.T. Rees Pryce -- Dennis E. Cosgrove - Michael J. Heffernan -- Allan Pred - Michael J. Watts --

Sommario/riassunto

Volume twenty-nine of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies has as its subject matter seven essays covering British and French regionalists, one of the world's leading cultural geographers, a quantitative geographer turned historical geographer and student of geopolitics, a pioneering medical geographer and a leading theoretician of geography's multiple engagements with the urban experience. In their different ways and with reference to Australia, Britain, France, Sweden



and the United States of America, all were products of - and direct influences upon - the emergence, strength and thematic