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Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1317907124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chapters in this book address fundamental questions of the nature and purpose of geography, scrutinising its contents, philosophy and methodology. Aimed at undergraduates its purpose is to broaden the debate about what geography had become during the 1980s and what shape it might take in the future.
Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1317907132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chapters in this book address fundamental questions of the nature and purpose of geography, scrutinising its contents, philosophy and methodology. Aimed at undergraduates its purpose is to broaden the debate about what geography had become during the 1980s and what shape it might take in the future.
Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1317820606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology. Much interest was shown in the 1980s in reviving, yet restructuring, the field of regional geography. The essays in this book both review that work and propose a way forward. The essays divide into three sections. The first assesses traditional regional geography and its relevance to the study of contemporary situations; the second, the alternative approaches of world-systems analysis, diffusion and structuration theory. The book concludes by considering the potential of regional geography to interpret the structures within which society operates and its claim to remain at the core of the discipline.
Author: Rhoads Murphey
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Published: 2013-12-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415733472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.
Author: Robert E. Dickinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1317907337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the works of the outstanding makers of modern geography and demonstrates the consistency of idea and purpose in their work. Geography as an explicitly defined field of knowledge is more than two thousand years old, but as a university subject, geography is only 150 years old, and in this period it has developed hugely. This study traces the development of modern geography as an organized body of knowledge, in the light of the works of its foremost German and French contributors.
Author: Ronald John Johnston
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing the case for a reinstatement of regional geography as a relevant methodology, this volume assesses traditional regional geography and its relevance to the study of contemporary situations, and defines alternative approaches to world-systems analysis and diffusion.
Author: Jennifer Wolch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1317819926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction – gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book’s contribution is the concept of society as a ‘time-space’ fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.
Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317907108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discipline of geography has undergone much change and growth in recent years. With growth has come diversity. Before 1945 there were differences between countries in the emphases on subject matter and research approach, although these were all related closely to three main ‘models’ – French, German and American. Since then, the relative importance of French and German influences has declined substantially, including within their own national territories, and the Anglo-American model has grown to world dominance. With that model, however, there is no dominant point of view but rather a multiplicity of competing approaches. These various approaches have had a different reception in other parts of the world, reflecting the base of pre-1945 geographical scholarship, the goals of geographical work set by soceities and the nature of the international contacts. The result is substantial international diversity in the practice of geography. This authoritative volume provides much needed information to make them aware of current international trends.
Author: Derek Gregory
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study contains 20 specially commissioned essays which attempt to present a critical challenge to the philosophical positivism of the "New Geography". The work attempts to shed light on the relationship between human agency and social and spatial structures.
Author: John L. Paterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1317906527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emphasis of this book is to explore two major philosophical influences in contemporary human geography, namely logical positivism and Marxism, and to explore the relationships between philosophy, methodology and geographical research. Rather than being a biography of David Harvey, the book contributes to the understanding of one of the most innovative and iconoclastic scholars in contemporary Anglo-American human geography.
