Geographers Biobibliographical Studies Volume 32

by Lorimer, Hayden; Withers, Charles W. J.

• ISBN13: 9781472512352
• ISBN10: 1472512359
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-07
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Hayden Lorimer is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Hayden Lorimer (Reader in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK) and Charles W. J. Withers (Professor of Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK)
1. Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK)
2. Emmanuel de Margerie (1862-1953), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK)
3. Pierre Monbeig (1908-1987), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK)
4. Charles Robequain (1897-1963), Hugh Clout (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at University College London, UK)
5. Richard Lawton (1925-2010), Colin Pooley (Professor of Social and Historical Geography at Lancaster University, UK)
6. William John Talbot (1908-1995), Michael E. Meadows (Head of the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
7. Antonín Strnad (1746-1799), Jan Kalvoda, Professor of Physical Geography (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) and Eva Novotná (Director of the Map Collection at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
8. Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791-1858), Elizabeth Baigent, Reader in the History of Geography (University of Oxford, UK)