Geographers Biobibliographical Studies Volume 34

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Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers’ diverse scholarly engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French colonial geographer, a Russian explorer-naturalist of Central Asia and Tibet, a British-born but long-time Australian resident and scholar of India, Pakistan, and the Pacific world, an American regionalist and eugenicist, and a Scots-born long-time American resident, one of the world’s leading Marxist geographers and urban theorists. Equally but differently committed to geography’s many specialisms, these subjects wonderfully illuminate the vibrancy – and the contradictions – behind the living of geographical lives. Cover HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Contents The contributors Introduction Pierre Birot Education, life and work Scientific ideas and publications Influence and spread of ideas Conclusion Acknowledgements James Alfred Steers Education, life and work Scientific publications, geographical thought and influences Conclusion Acknowledgements Hugh Counsell Prince Education, life and work Scientific ideas and geographical thought Influence and spread of ideas Conclusion Acknowledgements Maurice Zimmermann A single ticket from Paris to Lyon A global geographer Conclusion Acknowledgements Pyotr Kuz’mich Kozlov Early life and education With Przhevalskii on his final expeditions (1883–5, 1888) After Przhevalskii: travelling with Pevtsov and Roborovskii Leading the Tibet Expedition (1899–1901) Meeting the Dalai Lama The Mongolia–Sichuan Expedition (1907–9) and the discovery of Khara-Khoto Kozlov’s later activities The final expedition to Mongolia (1923–6) Final years Kozlov as field surveyor, geographer and naturalist Acknowledgements Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate Education, life and work Scientific ideas and geographical thought Spate’s scientific influence and legacy Epilogue Acknowledgements Stephen Sargent Visher Education, life and work Scientific ideas and geographical thought Influence and spread of ideas Conclusion Neil Smith Early life, early work, early influence First jobs, growing influence, deepening contradictions American Empire (and the endgame of globalization) Endgame Index 1. General Index 2. Cumulative List of Biobibliographies