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Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject since 1870

An International Survey

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Gary S. Dunbar

    1. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 62)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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.

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Gary S. Dunbar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject since 1870

  • Book Subtitle: An International Survey

  • Editors: Gary S. Dunbar

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1683-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0019-5Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5828-7Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1683-3Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 336

  • Topics: Geography, general, History, general, Human Geography

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