Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 33

by Hayden Lorimer (Editor), Charles W. J. Withers (Editor)

Overview

Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies with six essays on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography in the twentieth century. This volume focuses on European geographers, including essays on individuals from Britain, France and Hungary. These are individuals who have made important and distinctive contributions to a diverse range of fields, including cartography, physical geography, oceanography and urban theory. As with previous volumes, these biographical essays demonstrate the importance of geographers' lives in terms of the lived experience of geography in practise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472566614
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/20/2014
Series:	Geographers
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Hayden Lorimer is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Charles W. J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

The Contributors
Introduction - Hayden Lorimer
Jean Tricart - Hugh Clout
André Guilcher - Hugh Clout
Giovanni Marinelli and Olinto Marinelli - Matteo Proto
Mabel Mary Barker - Kenneth Maclean
Hull House Geography - Christina E. Dando
Sándor Radó - Michael Heffernan and Róbert Gyori
Hull House Geographers - Christina Dando
Henry Lefebvre - Nicholas Ginsburger
Index