The Dictionary of Human Geography 5th Edition by Derek Gregory

The Dictionary of Human Geography 5th Edition by Derek GregoryBy: Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts & Sarah Whatmore Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Print ISBN: 9781405132886, 1405132884 other ISBN: 9781118440711, 1118440714 Edition: 5thGeographical dictionaries have a long history. A number were published in Europe in theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a few ? mostly those with greater pretensions to providingconceptual order ? were described as ?Geographical Grammars?. The majority were compendia ofgeographical information, or gazetteers, some of which were truly astonishing in their scope. Forexample, Lawrence Echard noted with some asperity in his 1691 Compendium of Geography thatthe geographer was by then more or less required to be ?an Entomologist, an Astronomer, aGeometrician, a Natural Philosopher, a Husbandman, an Herbalist, a Mechanik, a Physician, aMerchant, an Architect, a Linguist, a Divine, a Politician, one that understands Laws and MilitaryAffairs, an Herald [and] an Historian.? Margarita Bowen, commenting on 1981 on what she took tobe Geography?s isolation from the scientific mainstream in Echard?s time, suggested that ?theprospect of adding epistemology and the skills of the philosopher? to such a list might well haveprecipitated its Cambridge author into the River Cam! Additional ISBNs 9781444310566, 9786612117251, 9781444359961, 9781444359954, 9781282117259, 1444310569, 6612117257, 1444359967, 1444359959, 1282117254, 9781405132886, 9781405132879, 9781444396133, 1405132884, 1405132876, 1444396137