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Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35 includes seven
essays discussing the contribution made to geography by eleven
geographers. The subjects include: three British figures, Francis
Rennell Rodd (1895-1978) expert on the Sahara; David Harris
(1930-2013), a geographer with archaeological interests; and
William Gordon East, historical geographer (1902-1998); a Spanish
urban scholar, Enric Martin (1928-2012); Mauricio de Almeida Abreu
(1948-2011), a Brazilian urban and historical geographer; and two
essays on French geographers, one on Jacques Levainville
(1869-1932), the other an innovative prosopographical essay on five
French authors involved in the monumental Vidalian Geographie
Universelle of the early 20th century. In these studies,
geography's international dimensions are illuminated and the
subject's vibrant history shown to be the result of committed
endeavours in the field, in the classroom and in print.
Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight
essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly
engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two
physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both
geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French
colonial geographer, a Russian explorer-naturalist of Central Asia
and Tibet, a British-born but long-time Australian resident and
scholar of India, Pakistan, and the Pacific world, an American
regionalist and eugenicist, and a Scots-born long-time American
resident, one of the world's leading Marxist geographers and urban
theorists. Equally but differently committed to geography's many
specialisms, these subjects wonderfully illuminate the vibrancy -
and the contradictions - behind the living of geographical lives.
Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds
significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple
histories and biographies with eight essays on individuals who have
made major contributions to the development of geography in the
twentieth century. This volume focuses on European geographers,
including essays on individuals from Britain, France and Hungary.
These are individuals who have made important and distinctive
contributions to a diverse range of fields, including cartography,
physical geography, oceanography and urban theory. As with previous
volumes, these biographical essays demonstrate the importance of
geographers' lives in terms of the lived experience of geography in
practise.
This volume of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies brings
together essays on four Frenchmen, a Czech, and three Englishmen.
The lives of our subjects extend from the late Enlightenment and
the era of 'polite science' in Regency Britain to the first decade
of the 21st century. These geographers and their studies are linked
not only in their regional expertise - from Brazil, French
Indo-China to Scandinavia and South Africa - but also by their
commitment to the development of geography as a science and as a
discipline. Here, in different settings and at different times, we
can see how the lived experience of geographers' lives shaped the
contours of the subject.
Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings
together nine essays on leading geographers and their work. With
its publication, the cumulative record of geographers' lives and
works in GBS exceeds 460 essays. Here, the editors bring forward
critical appraisals of six French geographers, and so illustrate
the rich traditions of geographical scholarship in that country; of
a leading Portuguese figure; a Briton who played a major role in
establishing geography in modern New Zealand; and a British woman
who pioneered connections between the history of geography in
practice and the histories of science and technology. Geographers'
lives and geography's making is wonderfully illuminated in
international, national and cross-disciplinary context.
The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical
Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting
significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth
century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early
modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's
connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics,
'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography,
medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian
tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA,
American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography
in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide
detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual
traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.
This is an annual collection of studies of individuals who have
made major contributions to the development of geography and
geographical thought. The thirtieth volume of "Geographers:
Biobibliographical Studies" takes as its subject the contributions
of nine individuals to the advancement and enrichment of
geographical knowledge. The subjects are drawn from across Europe
and the United States of America, from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and include famous names as well as some less well known
figures. Each study includes a select bibliography, a list of
sources and a brief chronology of the life written about. As with
other volumes in the series, the purpose is not to evaluate, but to
present individuals and their contributions as they really were and
in the context of their time. The emphasis is on the development
and spread of ideas and their role in the history of geographical
thought. "Geographers Biobibliographical Studies (GBS)" is the
world-leading annual serial international publication devoted to
the critical biographical assessment of scholars' contributions to
geography and geographical knowledge.
Volume twenty-nine of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies has
as its subject matter seven essays covering British and French
regionalists, one of the world's leading cultural geographers, a
quantitative geographer turned historical geographer and student of
geopolitics, a pioneering medical geographer and a leading
theoretician of geography's multiple engagements with the urban
experience. In their different ways and with reference to
Australia, Britain, France, Sweden and the United States of
America, all were products of - and direct influences upon - the
emergence, strength and thematic diversity of geography in the
twentieth century. Geographers 29 thus provides key insight into
the shaping of a discipline and of its practitioners in modern
context.
This is an annual collection of studies of individuals who have
made major contributions to the development of geography and
geographical thought. "The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series
Volume 28" includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential
geomorphologist, Charles P. Daly, long-serving president of the
American Geographical Society, Marion Newbigin, one of the leading
women geographers of the early twentieth century and Peter Heyleyn,
early modern humanist, historian and geographical author.
"Geographers Biobibliographical Studies" ("GBS") is the
world-leading annual serial international publication devoted to
the critical biographical assessment of scholars' contributions to
geography and geographical knowledge.
This is an annual collection of studies of individuals who have
made major contributions to the development of geography and
geographical thought.This twenty-seventh volume of "Geographers:
Biobibliographical Studies" brings together essays on leading
figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional,
cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography,
historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration.
Each essay engages with the individual's contribution to geography,
their works and their lives and the intellectual and social
contexts in which they worked and which helped shape them. In
addition - and to mark the new co-editorial pairing leading the
series - the volume has an essay on the history of GBS, on the
importance of biographical work in the history of geography and on
issues to be addressed by the scholarly communities engaged in
promoting this vital area of geographical research.
This twenty-sixth volume of "Geographers: Biobibliographical
Studies" brings together essays on leading figures in time
geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and
political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography
and methodology, and on African exploration. Each essay engages
with the individual's contribution to geography, their works and
their lives and the intellectual and social contexts in which they
worked and which helped shape them. In addition - and to mark the
new co-editorial pairing leading the series - the volume has an
essay on the history of GBS, on the importance of biographical work
in the history of geography and on issues to be addressed by the
scholarly communities engaged in promoting this vital area of
geographical research.
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35 includes seven
essays discussing the contribution made to geography by eleven
geographers. The subjects include: three British figures, Francis
Rennell Rodd (1895-1978) expert on the Sahara; David Harris
(1930-2013), a geographer with archaeological interests; and
William Gordon East, historical geographer (1902-1998); a Spanish
urban scholar, Enric Martin (1928-2012); Mauricio de Almeida Abreu
(1948-2011), a Brazilian urban and historical geographer; and two
essays on French geographers, one on Jacques Levainville
(1869-1932), the other an innovative prosopographical essay on five
French authors involved in the monumental Vidalian Geographie
Universelle of the early 20th century. In these studies,
geography's international dimensions are illuminated and the
subject's vibrant history shown to be the result of committed
endeavours in the field, in the classroom and in print.
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