Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.

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Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.

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Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

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The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441107855
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 12/14/2015
Series: Geographers
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh.
Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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W D Cooley (1795-1883)                    Roy Bridges                                        


 


James Blaut (1927-2005)                     Kent Matthewson                                


 


Michitoshi Odauchi (1875-1954)          Toshihiro Okada                                  


 


William Camden                                   Robert Mayhew                                  


 


Tycho Brahe                                         Michael Jones                                      


 


Max Sorre                                            Hugh Clout                                          


 


Howard Gregor                                    Stephen Jett                                         


 


Aimé Bonpland                         Stephen Bell                                        


 

Kate Marsden                                      Liz Baigent      
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