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Science Geography

Four Centuries of Special Geography

An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published...

by (author) O.F.G. Sitwell

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1993
Category
Geography, Bibliographies & Indexes
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774804448
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $175.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774844574
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $125.00

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Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.

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Contributor Notes

Francis Sitwell is a professor in the Department of Geography at University of Alberta.

Editorial Reviews

In the era of research assessment exercises, when it is all too easy to believe that rapidity and quantity of publication are what matter, it is a pleasure to come across a book which has been a long time in the making and which demonstrates the continued existence of the sort of scholarship for which universities have always been justly renowned ... For those interested in the history of one aspect of their discipline, and in its educational context, it will be an invaluable source, for which Francis Sitwell will be thanked many times over.

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