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Human Geography
An Essential Anthology
John A. Agnew (Edited by), J Agnew (Author), David J. Livingstone (Edited by), Alisdair Rogers (Edited by)
9780631194613, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 16 May 1996
720 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.8 cm, 1.234 kg
"This is an immensely useful book, aimed primarily at the undergraduate level. The editors have invested the readings with a coherence and sense of purpose that reflects very clearly their own powerful rendition of geographical tradition." Geography "... this anthology of human geography has it all. Covering a period of over 150 years, much care has been paid to include a variety of the most eminent geographers and a selection of the most important geographical concepts, making this anthology well worth waiting for." The Geographical Journal "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to be applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years. In short, I strongly recommend this wonderful anthology." Robert D. Sack, University of Wisconsin "Human Geography is an ambitious project which confronts the positive, enlightenment view of human behaviour and the processes that yield spatial patterns. Excellent value." Bryan H. Massam, York University, Canada "The book is for all who are seriously interested in the way their subject has developed and in the origins of ideas and approaches now so familiar as to be taken for granted. Teachers and students of undergraduate ideas and methods courses will find this invaluable." Times Educational Supplement "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years." Robert Sack, University of Wisconsin
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.
Acknowledgements ix General Introduction 1 Part I: Recounting Geography's History 17 Introduction 18 1. A Plea for the History of Geography 25 2. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? 37 3. Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography 54 4. Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change 66 5. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto 95 6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 108 Part II: The Enterprise 129 Introduction 130 7. What Geography Ought to Be 139 8. On the Scope and Methods of Geography 155 9. The Study of Geography 173 10. Meaning and Aim of Human Geography 181 11. Geography without Human Agency: A Humanistic Critique 192 12. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography 211 Part III: Nature, Culture and Landscape 233 Introduction 234 13. Traces on the Rhodian Shore 246 14. Influences of Geographic Environment 252 15. Civilizations: Organisms or Systems? 268 16. Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature 282 17. The Morphology of Landscape 296 18. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape 316 19. Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape 329 20. Geography as a Science of Observation: The Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity 341 21. The Land Ethic 351 Part IV: Region, Place and Locality 365 Introduction 366 22. Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness 378 23. Human Regions 385 24. The Character of Regional Geography 388 25. In What Sense a Regional Problem? 398 26. From Orientalism 414 27. Deconstructing the Map 422 28. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective 444 29. A Woman's Place? 458 30. The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies 476 31. The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept 492 Part V: Space, Time and Space-Time 513 Introduction 514 32. The Territorial Growth of States 525 33. The Geographical Pivot of History 536 34. Owners' Time and Own Time: The Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880 552 35. Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination 571 36. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts 590 37. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation 600 38. Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology 623 39. The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness 636 40. Diorama, Path and Project 650 41. A View of the GIS Crisis in Geography 675 A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995 686
John K. Wright
R. J. Johnston
Anne Buttimer
Horacio Capel
David Harvey
Donna Haraway
Peter Kropotkin
Halford J. Mackinder
Franz Boas
Paul Vidal de la Blache
David Ley
Derek Gregory
Clarence J. Glacke
Ellen C. Semple
Karl W. Butzer
Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe
Carl O. Sauer
John B. Jackson
Stephen Daniels
Gillian Rose
Aldo Leopold
A. J. Herbertson
H. J. Fleure
Richard Hartshorne
Doreen Massey
Edward W. Said
J. B. Harley
Yi-Fu Tuan
Linda McDowell and Doreen Massey
Philip Cooke
George H. T. Kimbl
Friedrich Ratzel
Halford J. Mackinder
Nigel Thrift
F. K. Schaefer
John D. Nystue
David Harvey
Edward W. Soja
Alan Pred
Torsten Hagerstrand
Stan Openshaw
Alisdair Rogers
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
