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Author: William Norton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume: No 77
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.482kg
ISBN: 9780313264948
ISBN 10: 0313264945
Pages: 213
Publication Date: 03 March 1989
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
?Norton, author of Historical Analysis in Geography (1984), offers an evaluation of cultural geography and its central concept, landscape. The first part examines conceptual relationships between human culture and the environment and outlines methodological approaches both within and beyond the discipline that have contributed to the development of cultural geography. The author argues for the essential unity of cultural and social geography and discusses the contributions of anthropology and sociology. A second group of chapters assesses four approaches to the study of landscape: behavioral, evolutionary, symbolic, and ecological. Norton's book is a selective and personal evaluation of his field rather than a definitive history of its development or program for its future. The 23-page bibliography lists a selective group of 20th-century works in cultural geography. . . . Primarily for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in geography.?-Choice
Norton, author of Historical Analysis in Geography (1984), offers an evaluation of cultural geography and its central concept, landscape. The first part examines conceptual relationships between human culture and the environment and outlines methodological approaches both within and beyond the discipline that have contributed to the development of cultural geography. The author argues for the essential unity of cultural and social geography and discusses the contributions of anthropology and sociology. A second group of chapters assesses four approaches to the study of landscape: behavioral, evolutionary, symbolic, and ecological. Norton's book is a selective and personal evaluation of his field rather than a definitive history of its development or program for its future. The 23-page bibliography lists a selective group of 20th-century works in cultural geography. . . . Primarily for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in geography. -Choice . . . Norton's assessment is an ambitious, almost audacious, and largely successful effort to bring together a tremendous amount of recent thinking and research in cultural and social geography and related disciplines. The book is an essential acquisition for geography librarians and human geographers and it would serve well as an integrative reading in advanced undergraduate or graduate cultural geography courses. -Special Libraries Association ?Norton, author of Historical Analysis in Geography (1984), offers an evaluation of cultural geography and its central concept, landscape. The first part examines conceptual relationships between human culture and the environment and outlines methodological approaches both within and beyond the discipline that have contributed to the development of cultural geography. The author argues for the essential unity of cultural and social geography and discusses the contributions of anthropology and sociology. A second group of chapters assesses four approaches to the study of landscape: behavioral, evolutionary, symbolic, and ecological. Norton's book is a selective and personal evaluation of his field rather than a definitive history of its development or program for its future. The 23-page bibliography lists a selective group of 20th-century works in cultural geography. . . . Primarily for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in geography.?-Choice ?. . . Norton's assessment is an ambitious, almost audacious, and largely successful effort to bring together a tremendous amount of recent thinking and research in cultural and social geography and related disciplines. The book is an essential acquisition for geography librarians and human geographers and it would serve well as an integrative reading in advanced undergraduate or graduate cultural geography courses.?-Special Libraries Association
Author Information
WILLIAM NORTON is Professor of Geography and Department Head, the University of Manitoba. His publications include Historical Analysis in Geography, together with numerous articles and book chapters on topics in historical and cultural geography.
