Geography and History: Bridging the Divide

by Alan R. H. Baker

Overview

Alan Baker considers locational geographies and spatial histories, environmental geographies and environmental histories, landscape geographies and landscape histories, and regional geographies and regional histories. Seeking to bridge the "Great Divide" between history and geography, Baker identifies basic principles relating historical geography not only to history but also to geography, a reworking which signifies a "new beginning" for this scholarly hybrid.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521246835
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/06/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography , #36
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Alan Baker is an internationally renowned historical geographer who in 1998 was honoured by France as a Chevalier dans l'Order des Palmes Academiques for his contribution to the field.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. On the relations of history and geography; 2. Locational geographies and histories; 3. Environmental geographies and histories; 4. Landscape geographies and histories; 5. Regional geographies and histories; 6. Reflections; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Baker has produced an admirably concise and clearly written survey of the major conceptual and methodological developments in British (largely English) and American historical geography—together with those in France—since the inception of this enterprise in the early twentieth century." - Lindsay Proudfoot, Reader in Historical Geography

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