Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject Since 1870

. Ed(s): Dunbar, Gary S.

ISBN 10: 1402000197 / ISBN 13: 9781402000195

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

About this Item

Offers a treatment of the professionalization and institutionalization of the academic discipline of geography in Europe and North America, with emphasis on the 20th century and the last quarter of the 19th. This book contains essays. It is intended for geographers, as well as practitioners of the social sciences, and historians of science. Editor(s): Dunbar, Gary S. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; PDX; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664. . 2001. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject Since 1870
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402000197
• ISBN 13: 9781402000195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

Review

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