Description
Explores the relationship between human and physical geography.
All chapters updated in the new edition to reflect new literature and changes in the discipline.
Chapter One systematically considers representations of geographical thought.
The closing chapter develops an explicit argument about what has made human geography distinctive.
Draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a fifty-year period characterised by both growth in the number of academic geographers and substantial shifts in conceptions of the discipline's scientific rationale
Table of Contents
1. The Nature of an Academic Discipline 2. Foundations 3. Growth of Systematic Studies and the Adoption of 'Scientific Method’ 4. Human Geography as Spatial Science 5. Humanistic Geography 6. 'Radical' Geographies 7. Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Postcolonialism 8. Gendered Geographies 9. Applied Geography and the Relevance Debates 10. A Changing Discipline?
