Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Geography Since 1945

by Ronald John Johnston

Book Overview

Geography and Geographers surveys the major trends in human geography since 1945 in the English-speaking world and sets their appreciation within the context of economic, social, and political changes. It focuses on the debates among geographers regarding what their discipline should study and how that should be done, and draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a fifty-year period, a time of massive growth and dynamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340652632
• ISBN13: 9780340652633
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A required text

My graduate class raced through this text, successfully I guess. As a GIS researcher, I found that the concerns surrounding the interface of GIS and human geography were handled in a biased way. In this I mean that the one chapter that deals with the techniques of human geography did a marginal job discussing GIS as just another in a line of positivist technical skills, rather than a true path for research. The text is dry, as only British Academics can manage, but is very comprehensive. My Berkley-trained prof like the book, if that helps at all.