Period and Place

Research Methods in Historical Geography
Herausgeber: Baker, Alan R. H.; Billinge, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

This 1982 volume of essays attempts to promote discussion about the purpose and practice of historical geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780521180160
• ISBN-10: 0521180163
• Artikelnr.: 32306400

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Developments in Historical Geography: 1. Historical
geography in Israel: retrospect and prospect Y. Ben-Arieh; 2. Developments
in historical geography in Britain in the 1970s R. A. Butlin; Part II.
Reconstructing Past Geographies:3. Reconstructing societies in the past:
the collective biography of local communities M. Billinge; 4.
Modernization, restoration, preservation: changes in tastes for antique
landscapes H. C. Prince; 5. Reconstructing Old Prussian landscapes, with
special reference to spatial organization H. Jaeger; 6. Soldier settlement
in British Columbia, 1915-1930: a synchronic analysis P. M. Koroscil; Part
III. The Identification and Interpretation of Geographical Change: 7.
Geographical analysis of imperial expansion D. W. Meinig; 8. Agricultural
improvement in late-colonial tropical America: sources and issues H.
Galloway; 9. Relating structure to process in historical population
analysis: case studies from eighteenth-century Spanish America D. J.
Robinson; 10. Questions of scale in the study of population in
nineteenth-century Britain R. Lawton; 11. Geographical changes in cities
following disaster M. J. Bowden; 12. Applied historical geography and
geographies of the past: historico-geographical change and regional
processes in history D. Deneke; 13. The interface of physical and
historical geography: the analysis of farming decisions in response to
drought hazards on the margins of the Great Plains D. A. McQuillan; 14.
Individualistic features in a communal landscape: some comments on the
spatial organization of a rural society U. Sporrong; 15. Land use and
settlement patterns in the Mälar area of Sweden before the foundation of
villages U. Göranson; 16. The significance of time for rural settlement
patterns I. Egerbladh; 17. Cotton production in Japan before
industrialization T. Ukita; Part IV. Behavioural Approaches to the Study of
Geographical Change: 18. Historical geography and Collingwood's theory of
historical knowing L. Guelke; 19. Images, acts and consequences: a critical
review of historical geosophy R. W. Chambers; 20. The images of France and
Paris in modern times: a historico-geographical problem P. Claval; 21.
Perceived space in ancient Japan M. Senda; 22. Problems of interpreting the
symbolism of past landscapes D. E. Cosgrove; Part V. Theoretical Approaches
in Historical Geography: 23. On ideology and historical geography A. R. H.
Baker; 24. Action and structure in historical geography D. J. Gregory; 25.
Historical geography as the evolution of spatial form W. Norton; Part VI.
Historical Sources and Techniques: 26. Historical geography and its
evidence: reflections on modelling sources J. B. Harley; 27. Private
archives as sources for historical geography C. Hall; 28. A Danish land
survey from the seventeenth century V. Hansen; 29. Cartographic
representation of diachronic analysis: the example of the origin of towns
A. Simms; 30. A note on some documentary sources for studying the
historical geography of Japan T. Tanioka; 31. Field evidence in historical
geography: a negative sample? A source critical study of an area with
fossil forms in Östergötland, Sweden M. Widgren; Notes to the text; Select
bibliography; Index.