基本説明
Trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns.
Full Description
These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. Never before has such an ambitious and wide-ranging review been attempted, and never before has it been done with so much knowledge and passion.
The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning. The volume also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems.
This lively and accessible work offers many insights into the minds and practices of today's geographers.
Contents
British geography 1500-1900: an imprecise review
The institutionalisation of geography as an academic discipline
Physical geography and geography as an environmental science
The domestication of the earth: humans and environments in prehistoric times
The creation of humanised landscapes
People and the contemporary environment
Place description, regional geography and area studies: the chorographic inheritance
The passion of place
Order in space: geography as a discipline in distance
Global, national and local
Geography displayed: maps and mapping
; The geographical underpinning of society and its radical transformation
Geography applied
Geographers and environmental change
The geography of disease distributions
Geographers and the urban century
Geographers and the fragmented city
Geographers and the regional problem
Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions
Geographers, ethics and social concern
