Table of Contents

David N. Livingstone: British geography 1500-1900: an imprecise review
Ron Johnston: The institutionalisation of geography as an academic discipline
Ken Gregory: Physical geography and geography as an environmental science
Ian Simmons: The domestication of the earth: humans and environments in prehistoric times
Michael Williams: The creation of humanised landscapes
Sally Eden: People and the contemporary environment
Hugh Clout: Place description, regional geography and area studies: the chorographic inheritance
Doreen Massey & Nigel Thrift: The passion of place
Ron Johnston: Order in space: geography as a discipline in distance
Peter Taylor: Global, national and local
Roger Kain & Catherine Delano-Smith: Geography displayed: maps and mapping
David Rhind: ; The geographical underpinning of society and its radical transformation
Robert J Bennett & Alan G. Wilson: Geography applied
John B. Thornes: Geographers and environmental change
Andrew Cliff & Peter Haggett: The geography of disease distributions
Peter Hall: Geographers and the urban century
Ceri Peach: Geographers and the fragmented city
Ray Hudson: Geographers and the regional problem
Linda McDowell: Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions
David M. Smith: Geographers, ethics and social concern

Reviews

an impressive collection of essays penned by a star-studded cast. Hugh Clout, Australian Geographical Studies Each essay is scholarly, highly informative, and richly referenced ... this large tome is not a difficult read and is highly appropriate for dipping into ... most welcome. Environment and Planning A Century of British Geography is a finely produced and finely written volume. Trevor Barnes, Journal of Historical Geography