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Book SynopsisThis book provides students in human geography with a vital resource - a collection of writings critical to understanding the field as a whole and revealing the interactions of its component parts. It is designed to give students ready access to the literature their studies are most likely to lead them to consult.
The book is divided into five parts. Parts I and II describe the nature of the enterprise and show the origins and current state of thinking on central issues. Part III is concerned with interactions between nature, culture and landscape. Part IV considers area differences and geographic units such as region, place and locality. Part V provides insights into the concepts of space, time and space-time. The editors have provided a general introduction, introductions to each part and contextual notes for each chapter. Each part concludes with sections of further reading by subject and the volume ends with a time chart of the main developments in geography.
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"This is an immensely useful book, aimed primarily at the undergraduate level. The editors have invested the readings with a coherence and sense of purpose that reflects very clearly their own powerful rendition of geographical tradition." Geography
"... this anthology of human geography has it all. Covering a period of over 150 years, much care has been paid to include a variety of the most eminent geographers and a selection of the most important geographical concepts, making this anthology well worth waiting for." The Geographical Journal
"This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to be applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years. In short, I strongly recommend this wonderful anthology." Robert D. Sack, University of Wisconsin
"Human Geography is an ambitious project which confronts the positive, enlightenment view of human behaviour and the processes that yield spatial patterns. Excellent value." Bryan H. Massam, York University, Canada
"The book is for all who are seriously interested in the way their subject has developed and in the origins of ideas and approaches now so familiar as to be taken for granted. Teachers and students of undergraduate ideas and methods courses will find this invaluable." Times Educational Supplement
"This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years." Robert Sack, University of Wisconsin
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix
General Introduction 1
Part I: Recounting Geography's History 17
Introduction 18
1. A Plea for the History of Geography 25
John K. Wright
2. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? 37
R. J. Johnston
3. Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography 54
Anne Buttimer
4. Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change 66
Horacio Capel
5. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto 95
David Harvey
6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 108
Donna Haraway
Part II: The Enterprise 129
Introduction 130
7. What Geography Ought to Be 139
Peter Kropotkin
8. On the Scope and Methods of Geography 155
Halford J. Mackinder
9. The Study of Geography 173
Franz Boas
10. Meaning and Aim of Human Geography 181
Paul Vidal de la Blache
11. Geography without Human Agency: A Humanistic Critique 192
David Ley
12. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography 211
Derek Gregory
Part III: Nature, Culture and Landscape 233
Introduction 234
13. Traces on the Rhodian Shore 246
Clarence J. Glacke
14. Influences of Geographic Environment 252
Ellen C. Semple
15. Civilizations: Organisms or Systems? 268
Karl W. Butzer
16. Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature 282
Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe
17. The Morphology of Landscape 296
Carl O. Sauer
18. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape 316
John B. Jackson
19. Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape 329
Stephen Daniels
20. Geography as a Science of Observation: The Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity 341
Gillian Rose
21. The Land Ethic 351
Aldo Leopold
Part IV: Region, Place and Locality 365
Introduction 366
22. Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness 378
A. J. Herbertson
23. Human Regions 385
H. J. Fleure
24. The Character of Regional Geography 388
Richard Hartshorne
25. In What Sense a Regional Problem? 398
Doreen Massey
26. From Orientalism 414
Edward W. Said
27. Deconstructing the Map 422
J. B. Harley
28. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective 444
Yi-Fu Tuan
29. A Woman's Place? 458
Linda McDowell and Doreen Massey
30. The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies 476
Philip Cooke
31. The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept 492
George H. T. Kimbl
Part V: Space, Time and Space-Time 513
Introduction 514
32. The Territorial Growth of States 525
Friedrich Ratzel
33. The Geographical Pivot of History 536
Halford J. Mackinder
34. Owners' Time and Own Time: The Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880 552
Nigel Thrift
35. Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination 571
F. K. Schaefer
36. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts 590
John D. Nystue
37. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation 600
David Harvey
38. Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology 623
Edward W. Soja
39. The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness 636
Alan Pred
40. Diorama, Path and Project 650
Torsten Hagerstrand
41. A View of the GIS Crisis in Geography 675
Stan Openshaw
A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995 686
Alisdair Rogers
