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Progress : geographical essays
- Title
- Progress : geographical essays / edited by Robert David Sack.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HM891 .P76 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sack, Robert David.
- Description
- xvi, 140 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Touching on both moral and material progress, six of the world's leading geographers and environmental historians explore differing aspects of theconnection between geography and progress. [from publisher's advertisement].
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- From Clements and Davis to Gould and Botkin: ideals of progress in physical geography / Thomas R. Vale -- Landscape, place and the state of progress / Kenneth R. Olwig -- The disenchanted future / David Lowenthal -- Progress and anxiety / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Perfectibility and democratic place-making / J. Nicholas Entrikin -- Geographical progress toward the real and the good / Robert David Sack.
- ISBN
- 0801868718
- 9780801868719
- 0801868726
- 9780801868726
- LCCN
- 2001005479
- OCLC
- ocm47989809
- 47989809
- SCSB-8806460
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library