Originally published in 1976 this book provides a source of essential material on the founding fathers of British and American geography. An assessment of 150 years, the period in which geography became an organized discipline, the book concentrates on the development of the regional concept.
Originally published in 1976 this book provides a source of essential material on the founding fathers of British and American geography. An assessment of 150 years, the period in which geography became an organized discipline, the book concentrates on the development of the regional concept. This concept seeks to understand the areal associations of human and physical phenomena and their inter-relations over the earth’s surface and is now generally regarded as the core of geographical studies. Through the work of its leading exponents, the author examines the changing meaning of the content, concepts, procedures and expertise involved in this study.
1.The Background Part 1: The United Kingdom
2. A Review
3. Patrick
Geddes, 1854-1932
4. Halford J. Mackinder, 1861-1947
5. Andrew J. Herbertson,
1865-1915
6. The Second Generation
7. The Third Generation
8. Founders of the
Main Centres I: Edinburgh II: Cambridge III: London IV: The Commonwealth
Leader: Thomas Griffith Taylor
9. The Royal Geographical Society
10.
Inter-War Trends
11. Post-War Trends Part 2: America
2. A Review
13. William
Morris Davis, 1850-1934
14. Mark Jefferson, 1863-1949
15. Albert Perry
Brigham, 1889-1929
16. J Russell Smith, 1874-1966
17. The Chicago Sequence
18. Ellen Churchill Semple 1863-1932
19. Ellsworth Huntingdon, 1876-1947
20.
The Second Generation
21. The American Geographical Society
22. Carl Ortwin
Sauer, 1889-1975
23. The Third Generation
24. Post-War Trends in the USA.
Robert E. Dickinson (19051981)
