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   Reference Works

These are the bibliographies for the course.

I add to them occasionally; they are never "finished". The list is not complete, nor do I intend that they are somehow the "best" books. It's simply a collection compiled over time that is intended to help you when you want to know more about something.

You should be able either to find these works in our library, and online databases or to order them through Interlibrary Loan.

Introductory Geography Textbooks

Bradshaw, White and Diamond (2004), Contemporary World Regional Geography, Global Connections, Local Voices. 1st edition, McGraw Hill, New York.

de Blij, Muller (2001): Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 10th Edition. Wiley, New York

Getis, Arthur; Getis, Judith and Fellmann, Jerome D.(2000): Introduction to geography. 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, Boston.

Haggett, Peter(2001): Geography - a global synthesis. Pearson Hall, London.

Holt-Jensen, Arild (1999): Geography - history and concepts. 3rd edition. SAGE Publications, London.

Pulsipher, Pulsipher & Goodwin. (2002). World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives. W.H. Freeman.

Rowntree, Les, et. al. 2000. Diversity Amid Globalization. Prentice Hall.

 

Favorites

Glacken, Clarence J. (1976) Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient limes to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley, CA University of California Press.

Hesiod (1988) ‘Works and days’, in M.L. West (ed. and trans.), Theogony and Works and Days. Oxford Oxford University Press. pp. 35-61.

Hippocrates (1950) ‘Airs, waters, places’, in The Medical Works of Hippocrates, trans. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann. Oxford Blackwell. pp. 90-1 11.

Homer (1996) The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles. New York Penguin.

Livingstone, David N. (1992) The Geographical Tradition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Strabo (1917) The Geography of Strabo, trans. H.L. Jones. London: Heinemann.

Tuan, Yi-Fu (1974) Topophilia: a Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Tuan, Yi-Fu (1980) ‘Rootedness versus sense of place’, Landscape, 24 (1): 3-8.

Tuan, Yi-Fu (1996) Cosmos and Hearth: a Cosmopolite's viewpoint. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

 Worster, Donald (1994) Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

 

General References

Brenner, Neil (1998) ‘Between fixity and motion: accumulation, territorial organization and the historical geography of spatial scales’, Environment and Planning D, 16 (4): 459-81.

Brunn, Stanley and Leinbach, Thomas (eds) (1991) Collapsing Space and Time: Geographic Aspects of Communications and Information. London: Harper.

Bunbury, E.H. (1959) A History of Ancient Geography. New York Dover.

Casey, Edward S. (1993) Getting Back into Place: toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place- World. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Casey, Edward S. (1997) The Fate of Place: a Philosophical History. Berkeley, CA University of California Press.

Entrikin, J. Nicholas (1991) The Betweenness of Place. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Godlewska, Anne and Smith, Neil (1994) Geography and Empire. Oxford Blackwell.

Heidegger, Martin (1977) ‘The age of the world picture’, in The Question Concerning Technology and other Essays, trans. William Lovitt. New York Garland.

Heise, Bernard W. (1998) ‘Visions of the world: geography and maps during the baroque age, 1550-1750’. Unpublished dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. pp. 115-54.

Jacobs, Jane (1961) The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York Random House.

Keller, Arthur S., Lissitzyn, Oliver J. and Mann, Frederick J. (1938) Creation of Rights of Sovereignty through Symbolic Acts. New York Columbia University Press.

Kimble, George H.T. (1951) ‘The inadequacy of the regional concept’, in L.D. Stampp and S.W. Wooldridge (eds), London Essays in Geography. London: Longman.

Kozol, Jonathan 1992. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. Harper Perennial: New York. Chapter: “The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York”, Pp. 83-132.

Lukermann, Fred (1961) ‘The concept of location in classical geography’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 51: 194-210.

Lukermann, Fred (1963) ‘The intimate relation of chronology, geography and astrology according to Bernhardus Varenius’. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. pp. 151-74.

Lynch, Kevin (1960) The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: Technology Press.

Mackinder, Halford John (1904) The Geographical Pivot of History. No publisher.

Mackinder, Halford John (1919) Democratic Ideals and Reality: a Study in the Politics of Reconstruction. New York Holt.

McLuhan, Marshall and Powers, Bruce R. (1989) The Global village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

Morley, David and Robins, Kevin (1995) Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. London: Routledge.

Newton, Isaac (1934) Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the World, trans. Andrew Motte and Florian Cajori. Berkeley, CA University of California Press.Pearce, 

Ptolemy (1940) Tetrabiblos, trans. F.E. Robbins. London: Heinemann.

Ptolemy (1948) ‘The elements of geography’, in Morris Raphael Cohen (ed.), A Source Book in Greek Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 162-81.

Relph, Edward (1976) Place and Placelessness. London: Pion.

Sifry, Micah and Christopher Cerf, eds.  1991.  The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions.  Times Books: New York.

Tessler, Mark 2003.  Arab and Muslim Political Attitudes: Stereotypes and evidence from Survey Research. forthcoming, International Studies Perspectives 4(2).

Thrower, Norman (1966) Original Survey and Land Subdivision: a Comparative Study of the Form and Effect of Contrasting Cadastral Systems. Chicago: Rand McNally.

Porter, Philip W. and Sheppard, Eric S.(1998): A world of difference - society, nature, development. The Guilford Press, New York/London.

Varenius, Bemhardus (1650) Geographia generalis, in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur. Amstelodami: L. Elzevirium.


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