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The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography

Beschreibung

Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.

Autor

Mona Domosh is the Joan P. and Edward J. Foley Jr. 1933 Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Recent publications include 'Historical geographies of, and for, the present', Progress in Human Geography 44, 2020, 168-188, with Levi Van Sant, Elizabeth Hennessy, Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Nathan McClintock, and Sharlene Mollett, and 'Race, biopolitics, and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43, 2018, 312-324. Michael Heffernan is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. Recent publications include Geographies of the University (Springer 2018), coedited with Peter Meusburger and Laura Suarsana, and Locating Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), coedited with Stephen Legg, Jake Hodder and Benjamin Thorpe. Charles W. J. Withers is Emeritus Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh and Geographer Royal for Scotland. Recent publications include Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian (Harvard University Press, 2017) and, coedited with Robert Mayhew, Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 1168
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 186mm x 259mm x 72mm
• Gewicht: 2376g
• ISBN-13: 9781526404558
• ISBN-10: 1526404559
• Artikelnr.: 54842077

Rezensionen

In these two indispensable volumes, editors Domosh, Heffernan and Withers bring together 50 diverse and vital voices to engage deeply with historical geography s past, present and future. The result of this remarkable collaboration is a guidebook to this distinctive field unlike any other. It is both an insightful, international overview and an exciting basis for informed engagement with today s world. Historical geography is quintessentially an interdisciplinary endeavor: with its lively and well-researched contributions addressing resonant themes from landscape to dispossession, outer space to big data, the Handbook of Historical Geography will spark the geographical imaginations of a wide readership.
Laura Jean Cameron 20200811