Human Nature in Geography : Fourteen Papers, 1925-1965 / John Kirtland Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, John Kirtland, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geografie, Reisen.

Geography.

Geography -- history -- essays.

Local Subjects:

Geography -- history -- essays.

Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. A Plea for the History of Geography

2. Where History and Geography Meet: RECENT AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF EXPLORATION

3. MAP MAKERS ARE HUMAN: COMMENTS ON THE SUBJECTIVE IN MAPS

4. HUMAN NATURE IN SCIENCE

5. TERRAE INCOGNiTAE: THE PLACE OF THE IMAGINATION IN GEOGRAPHY

6. THE OPEN POLAR SEA

7. FROM KUHLA KHAN TO FLORIDA

8. WHAT'S "AMERICAN" ABOUT AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY?

9. THE HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS "AN HISTORICAL NOTICE"

10. ON MEDIEVALISM AND WATERSHEDS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

11. DANIEL COIT GILMAN GEOGRAPHER AND HISTORIAN

12. MISS SEMPLE'S "INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT"

13. NOTES ON MEASURING AND COUNTING IN EARLY AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

14. NOTES ON EARLY AMERICAN GEOPIETY

EPILOGUE

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-43463-3

OCLC:

1024008349