Human Geography An Essential Anthology

by Agnew, John A.; Livingstone, David J.; Rogers, Alisdair

• ISBN13: 9780631194613
• ISBN10: 0631194614
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This 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. This collection of seminal articles aims to be revealing, challenging and engaging. It amply demonstrates why human geography is a subject worthy of the student's engagement and provides a vital and rewarding resource for its understanding.

Author Biography

John Agnew is Professor of Geography at UCLA. His books include The United States in the World Economy and co-authorship of The Geography of the World Economy.

David N. Livingstone is Professor of Geography at the Queen's University of Belfast. His books include The Geographical Tradition (Blackwell). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995.

Alisdair Rogers teaches geography at the University of Oxford. He is the co-editor of The Student's Companion to Geography (Blackwell).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
General Introduction	1	(16)
PART I RECOUNTING GEOGRAPHY'S HISTORY	17	(112)
Introduction	18	(7)
A Plea for the History of Geography	25	(12)
John K. Wright
Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution?	37	(17)
R.J. Johnston
Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography	54	(12)
Anne Buttimer
Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change	66	(29)
Horacio Capel
On the History and Present Condition of Geography: an Historical Materialist Manifesto	95	(13)
David Harvey
Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective	108	(21)
Donna Haraway
PART II THE ENTERPRISE	129	(104)
Introduction	130	(9)
What Geography Ought to Be	139	(16)
Peter Kropotkin
On the Scope and Methods of Geography	155	(18)
Halford J. Mackinder
The Study of Geography	173	(8)
Franz Boas
Meaning and Aim of Human Geography	181	(11)
Paul Vidal de la Blache
Geography without Human Agency: a Humanistic Critique	192	(19)
David Ley
Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography	211	(22)
Derek Gregory
PART III NATURE, CULTURE AND LANDSCAPE	233	(132)
Introduction	234	(12)
Traces on the Rhodian Shore	246	(6)
Clarence J. Glacken
Influences of Geographic Environment	252	(16)
Ellen C. Semple
Civilizations: Organisms or Systems?	268	(14)
Karl W. Butzer
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature	282	(14)
Neil Smith
Phil O'Keefe
The Morphology of Landscape	296	(20)
Carl O. Sauer
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape	316	(13)
John B. Jackson
Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape	329	(12)
Stephen Daniels
Geography as a Science of Observation: the Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity	341	(10)
Gillian Rose
The Land Ethic	351	(14)
Aldo Leopold
PART IV REGION, PLACE AND LOCALITY	365	(148)
Introduction	366	(12)
Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness	378	(7)
A.J. Herbertson
Human Regions	385	(3)
H.J. Fleure
The Character of Regional Geography	388	(10)
Richard Hartshorne
In What Sense a Regional Problem?	398	(16)
Doreen Massey
From Orientalism	414	(8)
Edward W. Said
Deconstructing the Map	422	(22)
J.B. Harley
Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective	444	(14)
Yi-Fu Tuan
A Woman's Place?	458	(18)
Linda McDowell
Doreen Massey
The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies	476	(16)
Philip Cooke
The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept	492	(21)
George H.T. Kimble
PART V SPACE, TIME AND SPACE-TIME	513	(173)
Introduction	514	(11)
The Territorial Growth of States	525	(11)
Friedrich Ratzel
The Geographical Pivot of History	536	(16)
Halford J. Mackinder
Owners' Time and Own Time: the Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880	552	(19)
Nigel Thrift
Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination	571	(19)
F.K. Schaefer
Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts	590	(10)
John D. Nystuen
The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation	600	(23)
David Harvey
Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology	623	(13)
Edward W. Soja
The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness	636	(14)
Allan Pred
Diorama, Path and Project	650	(25)
Torsten Hagerstrand
A View on the GIS Crisis in Geography	675	(11)
Stan Openshaw
A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995	686
Alisdair Rogers