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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.
| ISBN | 0197262864 | | Pages | 692 | | ISBN13 | 9780197262863
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 1515 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | British Academy Centenary Monographs | | Publication date | 11 Sep 2003 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | G99 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 910.71041 | | Spine width (mm) | 46 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | List of Plates | | | | | | Notes on Contributors | | | | | | Introduction by Ron Johnston and Michael Williams | | 1 | | 1 | | British geography 1500-1900: an imprecise review by David N. Livingstone | | 11 | | 2 | | The institutionalisation of geography as an academic discipline by Ron Johnston | | 45 | | 3 | | Physical geography and geography as an environmental science by Ken Gregory | | 93 | | 4 | | The domestication of the earth: humans and environments in prehistoric times by Ian Simmons | | 137 | | 5 | | The creation of humanised landscapes by Michael Williams | | 167 | | 6 | | People and the contemporary environment by Sally Eden | | 213 | | 7 | | Place description, regional geography and area studies: the chorographic inheritance by Hugh Clout | | 247 | | 8 | | The passion of place by Doreen Massey and Nigel Thrift | | 275 | | 9 | | Order in space: geography as a discipline in distance by Ron Johnston | | 303 | | 10 | | Global, national and local by Peter J. Taylor | | 347 | | 11 | | Geography displayed: maps and mapping by Roger Kain and Catherine Delano-Smith | | 371 | | 12 | | The geographical underpinning of society and its radical transformation by David Rhind | | 429 | | 13 | | Geography applied by Robert J. Bennett and Alan G. Wilson | | 463 | | 14 | | Geographers and environmental change by John B. Thornes | | 505 | | 15 | | The geography of disease distributions by Andrew Cliff and Peter Haggett | | 521 | | 16 | | Geographers and the urban century by Peter Hall | | 545 | | 17 | | Geographers and the fragmented city by Ceri Peach | | 563 | | 18 | | Geographers and the regional problem by Ray Hudson | | 583 | | | More... | | |
an impressive collection of essays penned by a star-studded cast. Hugh Clout, Australian Geographical Studies Each essay is scholarly, highly informative, and richly referenced ... this large tome is not a difficult read and is highly appropriate for dipping into ... most welcome. Environment and Planning A Century of British Geography is a finely produced and finely written volume. Trevor Barnes, Journal of Historical Geography  Be the first to write a customer review
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