Geography and geographers : Anglo-American human geography since 1945

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Geography and geographers : Anglo-American human geography since 1945

R.J. Johnston

E. Arnold , Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991

4th ed

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Bibliography: p. [295]-346

Includes indexes

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Description

A history of the evolution of modern geographical thought which provides ready explanations of such relevant ideas and concepts as entropy, autocorrelation, catastrophe theory and structuralism.

Table of Contents

  • The nature of an academic discipline
  • foundations
  • growth of systematic studies and the adoption of "scientific method"
  • the search for a focus
  • behavioural geography
  • humanistic geography
  • applied geography and the relevance debate
  • radical approaches
  • evaluation.

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