Geography: History and ConceptsSAGE, 24 sep 2009 - 280 pagina's Now in a fourth edition, this standard student reference has been totally revised and updated. It remains the definitive introduction to the history, philosophy, and methodology of human geography; now including a detailed explanation of key ideas in human geography's post-modernist and post-structuralist 'turns'. The book is organized into six sections:
This text explores complex ideas in an intelligible and accessible style. Illustrated throughout with research examples and explanations in text boxes, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and a concept glossary, this is the essential student companion to the discipline. |
Inhoudsopgave
1 WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY? | 1 |
2 THE FOUNDATION OF GEOGRAPHY | 33 |
30 YEARS OF PROGRESS | 79 |
4 PARADIGMS AND REVOLUTIONS | 100 |
5 POSITIVISM AND ITS CRITICS | 125 |
6 NEW TRENDS AND IDEAS | 160 |
GLOSSARY AND SUBJECT INDEX | 212 |
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY | 236 |
253 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
academic actant actions activity actor-network theory analysis approach argued basic basis behaviour Carl Sauer central place theory cognized environment concept created critical cultural landscape defined discipline discussion earth ecology economic empirical environment environmental environmental determinism example explain factors feminist geography Figure focus gender geogra geographical research geographical societies geomorphology Giddens Gilgit global Haggett Hartshorne Hettner human geography humanistic ideas idiographic important individual influence interpretation Kant knowledge Kuhn landscape ecology laws logical positivism maps meaning methods natural sciences nomothetic objects paradigm particular patterns phenomena philosophical physical geography political positivism positivist possible postmodernism poststructuralism present problems quantitative quantitative revolution Réclus regarded regional geography relations research workers revolution Ritter role scientific scientists settlement social science space spatial science school structuration theory synthesis systematic theoretical tion traditional understanding