This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research.
This book covers a wide canvas of the story of geographical thoughts, ideas, and knowledge, from the early Greek period to modern contemporary geography.
This engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography.
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 ...
MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT.
Machiavelli, Arte della guerra [1521], ed. ... For the classical empires see O. A. W. Dilke, Greek and Roman maps (London, 1985), pp. ... D. W. Meinig, The shaping of America: a geographical perspective on 500 years of history, vol. 1: ...
MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT.
The central concern of realists with the reality behind appearance, with problematic structures and mechanisms, demands the use of theories and models in realist explanations. Models are virtually the same as theories for realists; ...
It is a false claim about the role of the AAG in the dispute that I find profoundly disturbing. (2010, p. 422) This passage is sufficiently hyperbolic to require some patient dissection. Consider the first long sentence.
The text will be required reading for all modules on the philosophy of geography and on geographical theory.