Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge - Couverture rigide

Keighren, Innes M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848851413 ISBN 13 : 9781848851412

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2010

Synopsis

Ellen Semple's 'Influences of Geographic Environment' (1911) - a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism - coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academic discipline in North America and Britain. Highly controversial and written by one of America's first female professional geographers, it was considered by some a monument to Semple's scholarship and erudition, whilst for others it was conceptually flawed. And yet its influence on the development and direction of the new discipline of geography was profound. Innes Keighren explains why 'Influences' was encountered differently by different people, at different times and in different places, and reveals why the book aroused the passions it did. The result is a pioneering work that provides a wholesale re-visioning of the way in which geographical knowledge is disseminated.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Innes M. Keighren was until recently Research Associate at the Institute of Geography and the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He is now Lecturer in Human Georgraphy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848851413
• ISBN 13: 9781848851412
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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