Geography and History
Geography and History
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.
- Was the first review of the relations of history and geography for more than a century, taking account of recent interdisciplinary work in areas like environmental studies
- Author with international reputation, in Britain, France and North America
- Enormous bibliography (over 1000 entries) making this an essential purchase for all graduate students in the field
Reviews & endorsements
"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
Product details
December 2003Hardback
9780521246835
296 pages
236 × 160 × 24 mm
0.596kg
15 b/w illus. 3 maps
Available
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.
