History and philosophy of geography 1999–2000

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I Dictionaries, histories and philosophies of geography Future writers on the history and philosophy of geography will find some of the most illuminating and invaluable records of the intellectual journeys taken by the discipline in the late twentieth century in the pages of The dictionary of human geography, now in its fourth edition (Johnston et al., 2000). This increasingly bulky book provides an essential atlas and gazetteer to the contemporary (and largely Anglo-American) geographical landscape. As such, it may be read in a range of directions and offers insights into key technical, methodological and philosophical terms, fostering new connections and creative cartographies of an ever-expanding intellectual universe. Given the scope and key reference status of the volume, as well as its direct role in shaping and reflecting the history and philosophy of geography, I would like to consider this new edition in greater detail than is usually the case for individual works in progress reports. I shall then go on to use this as a basis for considering, in more general terms, work in the history and philosophy of geography in 1999–2000. As the editors note in their preface, since the first edition (1981) The dictionary of

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