Books written by Ron Johnston

A Century of British Geography

These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns.
Geography of Elections

Batsford, London. coleman, J. s. (1964) Introduction to Mathematical Sociology. The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois. coleman, j. s. (1972) 'Control of collectivities and the power of a collectivity to act', in Liebermann, B. (editor), ...
Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945

Peet, R., Robbins, R. and Watts, M. (eds) 2011. Global Political Ecology. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. Peltier, L. C. 1954. Geomorphology. In P. E. James and C. F. Jones (eds) American Geography: Inventory and prospect.
The Dictionary of Human Geography

The fifth edition belongs on the bookshelf of all serious students.' Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech 'With an exceptional balance between breadth and depth, this is undoubtedly a timely and ground-breaking revision of the Dictionary.
Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945

In R. J. Huggett, M. Robinson and Douglas, I. (eds) Companion Encyclopedia of Geography. London: Routledge, 794¥817. Johnston, R. J. 1996c. Jean Gottmann: French regional and political geographer extraordinaire.
From Votes To Seats: The Operation of the UK Electoral System Since 1945

With the use of imaginative diagrams, this book examines the electoral process in detail, illustrating how it operates, while stressing the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.
Representative democracy?: Geography and the British electoral system

Concluding with a detailed consideration of the ways in which various parts of the UK have embraced alternatives to first-past-the-post over the last two decades, this book serves as a timely reminder that the needs of political parties do ...
Bell-ringing: The English Art of Change-ringing

Bell-ringing: The English Art of Change-ringing
Future-Oriented Technology Analysis: Strategic Intelligence for an Innovative Economy

This book charts the development of FTA and provides the first coherent description and analysis of its practical application and impact in the worlds of business, government, education and research in both advanced and developing countries ...
Putting Voters in their Place: Geography and Elections in Great Britain

Trends are set in the context of the latest research and scholarship on electoral behaviour. The book also reports on new research findings.
Putting Voters in their Place: Geography and Elections in Great Britain

Trends are set in the context of the latest research and scholarship on electoral behaviour. The book also reports on new research findings.
Geography Since the Second World War (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

(1958) Tephrochronological Studies in Japan,Erdkunde, 254-70. Kawabe, H. (1980) 'Internal Migration and the Population Distribution in Japan' in The Association of Japanese Geographers (ed.), Geography 0 f Japan , Teikokushoin, 379-89.
Developments in Electoral Geography (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)

The 1987 vote in historical perspective Immediate reaction to the election was focused upon Labour's historic ... One of these changes, building on voting trends evident in 1984, is a realignment of party political allegiances.
Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries

The text will be required reading for all modules on the philosophy of geography and on geographical theory.
Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries

However , we believe that the book marks out a significantly different cut across most existing narratives of philosophical , theoretical and conceptual thinking in human geography , and we trust that it will contribute in some small ...
Geography of Elections

Within an international framework, this work provides a fully comprehensive approach to the geographical coverage of elections.
Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)

This book explores the place of nationalism in the modern world.
The Future of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

The chapters in this book address fundamental questions of the nature and purpose of geography, scrutinising its contents, philosophy and methodology.
The Geography of English Politics (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography): The 1983 General Election

This book illustrates the degree of variability in voting behaviour within social groups and suggests reasons for that variability.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XI

Obituaries of Fellows have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. New Memoirs will now be made available online by the British Academy as an open access resource. But an annual volume will still be published.