Geographical thought : a contextual history of ideas
/ R. D. Dikshit
- New Delhi : Prentice Hall, 2006
- x, 300 p.
1. The first foundations : developments up to the eighteenth century 2. Geography in the ninettenth century : the age of humboldt 1790-1859 3. Geography after humboldt and ritter: developments in germany 4. Geography after humboldt and ritter: developments outside germany 5. Developments in geography since world war ii: from areal to spatial analysis 6. Behavioral persuasion in geography and the raise of humanistic geography 7. The all for social relevance in research: reorientation to political economy 8. The regional concept and regional geography 9. The historical explanation in geography 10. Impact of evolutionary biology on geographical thought: organization and ecosystem as geographical models 11. Geography and environmentalism 12. Place, space and locality: the current focus in human geography 13. The geography of gender 14. Modern versus post modern geographies 15. Progress since world war ii: continuity, change, rapprochement, and convergence