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Innes M. Keighren

Bringing Geography to Book

Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge

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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, while 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,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84885-141-2
  • EAN: 9781848851412
  • Produktnummer: 7311034
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.6 cm 576 g
  • Abbildungen: 8 integrated bw
  • Gewicht: 576
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


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.

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