Human Geography: A History for the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780340759325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str.

Georges Benko

Opis

Written clearly and accessibly by leading researchers, this book examines the debates, major trends, research, and conceptual evolution of human geography during the past century. Considering each of the subject's primary subfields in turn, it addresses developments in both continental European and Anglo-American geography, providing a cutting-edge evaluation of each.

Recenzje

'Up-to-date, comprehensive and truly cosmopolitan.'
Mr P Hubbard, Loughborough University

Spis treści

Preface
Chapter 1: Geographical Visions: the Evolution of Human Geographic Thought in the 20th Century by Peter Gould (Penn State) and Ulf Strohmayer (NUI, Galway)
Chapter 2: Cultural Geography: place and landscape between continuity and change by Paul Claval (Paris-IV) and J. Nicholas Entrikin (UCLA)
Chapter 3: Economic Geography: towards the Century of Globalisation by Georges Benko (Paris-I) and Allen J Scott (UCLA)
Chapter 4: Historical Geography: Locating Time in the Spaces of Modernity by Mark Bassin (UCL) and Vincent Berdoulay (Pau)
Chapter 5: Political Geography: Spaces Between War and Peace by Peter J Taylor (Loughborough) and Herman van der Wusten (Amsterdam)
Chapter 6: Social Geography: Looking for Society in its Spaces by Chris Philo (Glasgow) and Ola Söderström (Neuchâtel)
Conclusion

O autorze

Ulf Strohmayer is Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Georges Benko is Lecturer at the L'Université Paris 1.

The editors previously combined on Geography, History and Social Science (Kluwer, 1995) and Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity (Blackwell, 1997).