A Hundred Years Of Geography

Author : T.W. Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351535083

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

Far from dissolving, this effort demonstrates 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.

Author : Thomas Walter Freeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Geography
ISBN : 0715605984

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A Hundred Years of Geography by Thomas Walter Freeman Pdf

Author : Paul Coones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Geography
ISBN : LCCN:88191875

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Mackinder's 'Scope and Methods of Geography' After a Hundred Years by Paul Coones Pdf

Author : Stoyan Nedkov,Georgi Zhelezov,Nadezhda Ilieva,Mariyana Nikolova,Boian Koulov,Kliment Naydenov,Steliyan Dimitrov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030281915

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Smart Geography by Stoyan Nedkov,Georgi Zhelezov,Nadezhda Ilieva,Mariyana Nikolova,Boian Koulov,Kliment Naydenov,Steliyan Dimitrov Pdf

This book focuses on new and innovative spatial approaches based on smart solutions and developed in the field of geography and related interdisciplinary fields such as urban and regional studies, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. It includes contributions from a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Geographical Society. In turn, the book reveals how 21st-century geography is expected to facilitate the development of human capital and the knowledge society, while also offering place-specific solutions for sustainable regional development and utilization of the planet’s natural and human capital to improve social wellbeing. This volume is intended for the global geographical research community, as well as professionals and practitioners in all fields that deal with space, including regional planners and environmental managers.

Author : Paul Coones,David Ross Stoddart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Geography
ISBN : OCLC:1026641248

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A hundred years of geography at Oxford and Cambridge by Paul Coones,David Ross Stoddart Pdf

Author : William George Victor Balchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034417207

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The Geographical Association by William George Victor Balchin Pdf

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952090

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782833512

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Geography Is Destiny by Ian Morris Pdf

'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel 'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book' Robert Colvile, The Times For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for thousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian Morris shows how much the meaning of Britain's geography has changed in the 10,000 years since rising seas began separating the Isles from the Continent, and how these changing meanings have determined Britons' destinies. From being merely Europe's fractious, feuding periphery - divided by customs, language and landscape, and always at the mercy of more powerful continental neighbours - the British turned themselves into a United Kingdom and put it at the centre of global politics, commerce and culture. But as power and wealth now shift from the West towards China, what fate awaits Britain in the twenty-first century?

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812982220

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The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.

Author : John Lewis Robinson,Walter Gordon Hardwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 0889220484

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British Columbia by John Lewis Robinson,Walter Gordon Hardwick Pdf

"A most thoughtful survey.... This is a book you must read". -- Western Living

Author : Guanzhong Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Painting, Chinese -- Singapore -- Exhibitions
ISBN : 0810981351

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Wu Guanzhong by Guanzhong Wu Pdf

Author : Walter Goffart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226300726

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Historical Atlases by Walter Goffart Pdf

Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart concludes the book with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870. Historical Atlases will immediately take its place as the single most important reference on its subject. Historians of cartography, medievalists, and anyone seriously interested in the role of maps in portraying history will find it invaluable.

Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : 0590489100

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Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz Pdf

Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.

Author : Edward WELLS (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024372256

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An historical geography of the Old and New Testament, etc by Edward WELLS (D.D.) Pdf

Author : John Mortimer,Tom O’Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781527570641

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The Making of Geography as a Secondary School Subject by John Mortimer,Tom O’Donoghue Pdf

No work has ever been produced previously that shows how historically geography has been constructed as a subject for the senior years of secondary schooling in Western Australia from 1917 to 1997. In doing so, this book contributes to the existing corpus of international research on the history of curriculum and particularly the history of geography as a senior secondary school subject. Much of it is based on primary sources, including the textbooks and atlases used, along with syllabus manuals and geography examination papers. It also provides a framework for investigating the construction of senior secondary school geography curricula in other constituencies, and could act as a model for engaging in further research in curriculum history for other school subjects state-wide, nationally and internationally. The book also makes an important contribution to the fields of curriculum design, curriculum development and curriculum innovation. It will be of great interest to historians of education, comparative educationists, education leaders, policy makers and librarians.