A Century Of British Geography

Author : Ron Johnston,Michael Williams,British Academy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0197262864

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A Century of British Geography by Ron Johnston,Michael Williams,British Academy Pdf

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.

Author : Robert W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 052124790X

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British Geography 1918-1945 by Robert W. Steel Pdf

The foundations of modern British geography are traced to follow its evolution from its fragile institutional origins through its important role in national planning during post war reconstruction.

Author : David Gilbert,David Matless,Brian Short
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444355529

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Geographies of British Modernity by David Gilbert,David Matless,Brian Short Pdf

This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain. The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain. Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century. Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies. Demonstrates the vitality of work in this field and its relevance to everyday life.

Author : Peter John Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B4906043

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A Geography of 19th Century Britain by Peter John Perry Pdf

Author : Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1526116715

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Geography and Science in Britain, 1831-1939 by Charles W. J. Withers Pdf

Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography's civic history.

Author : Richard Lawton,Colin G. Pooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000390285

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Britain 1740 – 1950 by Richard Lawton,Colin G. Pooley Pdf

Originally published in 1992, this book provides students with a well-illustrated, clearly written text which offers a coherent overview of Britain’s development from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society. The key processes that have shaped the geography of modern Britain are rooted in the significant demographic, economic, technological and social transitions of the early eighteenth century, the impact of which was not fully diffused through the nation until the mid-20th Century. This country-wide survey examines the nature of this transformation. The material in the book is accessible because the book is clearly structured into 3 phases: 1740 to the 1830s; the 1830s to the 1890s and the 1890s to 1950. For each period, the principal aspects of change in population, industry, the countryside and urban life are examined, and regional examples given to support the analysis.

Author : Paul Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198807117

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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 by Paul Stock Pdf

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.

Author : Griffith Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317304326

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Geography in the Twentieth Century by Griffith Taylor Pdf

This title, first published in 1951, examines the growth, fields, techniques, aims and trends of geography at the time. The book is divided into three parts, of which the first deals with the evolution of geography and its philosophical basis. The second is concerned with studies of special environments and with advances in geomorphology, meteorology, climate, soils and regionalism. The last part describes field work, sociological and urban aspects, the function of the Geographical Society and geo-pacifics. Geography in the Twentieth Century will be of interest to students of both physical and human geography.

Author : Richard Lawton,Colin Pooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103200584X

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Britain 1740 - 1950 by Richard Lawton,Colin Pooley Pdf

Originally published in 1992, this book provides students with a well-illustrated, clearly written text which offers a coherent overview of Britain's development from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society. The key processes that have shaped the geography of modern Britain are rooted in the significant demographic, economic, technological and social transitions of the early eighteenth century, the impact of which was not fully diffused through the nation until the mid-20th Century. This country-wide survey examines the nature of this transformation. The material in the book is accessible because the book is clearly structured into 3 phases: 1740 to the 1830s; the 1830s to the 1890s and the 1890s to 1950. For each period, the principal aspects of change in population, industry, the countryside and urban life are examined, and regional examples given to support the analysis.

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374717032

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Geography Is Destiny by Ian Morris Pdf

In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world. When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other of stupidity, fraud, and treason. In reality, the Brexit debate merely reran a script written ten thousand years earlier, when the rising seas physically separated the British Isles from the European continent. Ever since, geography has been destiny—yet it is humans who get to decide what that destiny means. Ian Morris, the critically acclaimed author of Why the West Rules—for Now, describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain’s arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European stage, struggling to find a role among bigger, richer, and more sophisticated continental rivals. By 1500 CE, however, new kinds of ships and governments had turned the European stage into an Atlantic one; with the English Channel now functioning as a barrier, England transformed the British Isles into a United Kingdom that created a worldwide empire. Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and—increasingly—Chinese actors. In trying to find its place in a global economy, Britain has been looking in all the wrong places. The ten-thousand-year story bracingly chronicled by Geography Is Destiny shows that the great question for the current century is not what to do about Brussels; it’s what to do about Beijing.

Author : John A Agnew,David N Livingstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781446209547

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The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge by John A Agnew,David N Livingstone Pdf

A refreshingly innovative approach to charting geographical knowledge. A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement. This creative and comprehensive book offers an extremely valuable tool to professionals and students alike. - Victoria Lawson, University of Washington "A Handbook that recasts geograph′s history in original, thought-provoking ways. Eschewing the usual chronological march through leading figures and big ideas, it looks at geography against the backdrop of the places and institutional contexts where it has been produced, and the social-cum-intellectual currents underlying some of its most important concepts." - Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge is a critical inquiry into how geography as a field of knowledge has been produced, re-produced, and re-imagined. It comprises three sections on geographical orientations, geography′s venues, and critical geographical concepts and controversies. The first provides an overview of the genealogy of "geography". The second highlights the types of spatial settings and locations in which geographical knowledge has been produced. The third focuses on venues of primary importance in the historical geography of geographical thought. Orientations includes chapters on: Geography - the Genealogy of a Term; Geography′s Narratives and Intellectual History Geography′s Venues includes chapters on: Field; Laboratory; Observatory; Archive; Centre of Calculation; Mission Station; Battlefield; Museum; Public Sphere; Subaltern Space; Financial Space; Art Studio; Botanical/Zoological Gardens; Learned Societies Critical concepts and controversies - includes chapters on: Environmental Determinism; Region; Place; Nature and Culture; Development; Conservation; Geopolitics; Landscape; Time; Cycle of Erosion; Time; Gender; Race/Ethnicity; Social Class; Spatial Analysis; Glaciation; Ice Ages; Map; Climate Change; Urban/Rural. Comprehensive without claiming to be encyclopedic, textured and nuanced, this Handbook will be a key resource for all researchers with an interest in the pasts, presents and futures of geography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Geography
ISBN : OCLC:1418913310

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The Century Geographical Readers by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. W. Freeman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 141284472X

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A Hundred Years of Geography by T. W. Freeman Pdf

Far from dissolving, this effort demonstates the ongoing vitality of geography as a profession. In a world increasingly sensitive to the problems of people and resources, geography has constantly provided the basic information for its sister sciences, economics, political science, sociology and demography, This book turns, attention to geography itself, in an incisive survey of the development of the discipline as a science. A Hundred Years of Geography draws together the threads of a century of progress, from the first scientific explorations and mappings to present-day trends toward specialization and generalization. It contains a synoptic view of the development of the various aspects of geography, showing how the field has been differentiated from associated disciplines and how it has differentiated and specialized within itself. The book also offers two important reference tools: a bibliography of the important geographical works published throughout the world, and biographical sketches of ninety important geographers. It is informative, stimulating, urbane and civilized reading, as well as being an excellent introductory text and reference work to recent scholarship in the field of geography. Thomas Walter Freeman was educated at Leeds University and has been Reader in Economic Geography at Manchester University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Ireland, Geography and Planning, and The Conurbations of Great Britain.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033505

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Geographies of an Imperial Power by Jeremy Black Pdf

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the "barbarism" beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known.

Author : Adam Sills,Associate Professor of English Adam Sills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813945992

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Against the Map by Adam Sills,Associate Professor of English Adam Sills Pdf

Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important, against it.