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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822059503321

Titolo

Progress : geographical essays / / edited by Robert David Sack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-8018-7682-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SackRobert David

Disciplina

303.44

Soggetti

Progress

Geography

Human geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - From Clements and Davis to Gould and Botkin: Ideals of Progress in Physical Geography -- Chapter 2 - Landscape, Place, and the State of Progress -- Chapter 3 - The Disenchanted Future -- Chapter 4 - Progress and Anxiety -- Chapter 5 - Perfectibility and Democratic Place-Making -- Chapter 6 - Geographical Progress toward the Real and the Good -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Vale, University of Wisconsin-Madison.