Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject since 1870

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Gary S. Dunbar

   Pages 1-7

3. History of German Geography: Worldwide Reputation and Strategies of Nationalisation and Institutionalisation

   • Bruno Schelhaas, Ingrid Hönsch

   Pages 9-44

4. Geography in France: Context, Practice, and Text

   • Vincent R. H. Berdoulay

   Pages 45-78

5. A Partial Biography: The Formalization and Institutionalization of Geography in Britain since 1887

   • Charles W. J. Withers

   Pages 79-119

6. Modern Geography in Italy: From the Archives to Environmental Management

   • Ilaria Luzzana Caraci

   Pages 121-151

7. Geography and Geographers in the Netherlands since the 1870s: Serving Colonialism, Education, and the Welfare State

   • Ben de Pater

   Pages 153-190

8. Stories on the Making of Geography in Sweden

   • Anne Buttimer

   Pages 191-223

9. Geography in Russia: Glories and Disappointments

   • David J. M. Hooson

   Pages 225-243

10. Academic Geography, American Style: An Institutional Perspective

    • William A. Koelsch

    Pages 245-279

11. The Development of Geographical Study in Canada, 1870–2000

    • John Warkentin, Paul Simpson-Housley

    Pages 281-315

12. Back Matter

    Pages 317-336

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Gary S. Dunbar "Pro-fesh-yon-al-i-zay-shun . . . pro-fesh-yon-al-i-ZAY-shunl . . . I do not think I like that word . . . I am quite certain I do not like that wordl," said A. F. Martin of Oxford University in 1980 when I mentioned to him that I was making a study of the professionalization of geography in Europe and North America from about 1870 to 1930. I should not have been surprised by his reply, because Mr. Martin, a highly regarded lecturer, tutor, and university man, was in some ways a typical example of his generation of British geographers, in that he did not have an advanced degree and his publication record was meager. Except for a single remarkable essay (Martin 1951), he was not well known in the field of geography, at least not outside the United Kingdom. Was he, then, a professional geographer? Yes, indeed, because he was a full-time scholar in a distinguished university, even though he lacked the sort of credentials that have been demanded of subsequent generations of scholars, at Oxford and elsewhere. I certainly do not mean to denigrate Martin or his ilk; I am simply using this anecdote to launch a book on the emergence of modern geography.

• 19. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• History Of Geography
• education
• geographical study
• geography
• institutionalisation

"...the book should be in every university library."
(Progress in Human Geography, 28:2 (2004)

• University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Gary S. Dunbar

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