TY - BOOK AU - Dikshit, R. D. TI - Geographical Thought: A Contextual History of Ideas SN - 9788120311824 U1 - 910.01 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - PHI Learning KW - Earth Sciences KW - Geography KW - Historical Account KW - Geographical Thought KW - History N1 - The first foundations: developments upto the eighteenth -- Geography in the nineteenth century: the age of Humboldt, 1790-1859 -- Geography after Humboldt and Ritter: developments in Germany -- Geography after Humboldt and Ritter: developments outside Germany -- Developmenta in geography since World War II: from areal to spatial analysis -- Behavioural persuation in geography and the rise of humanistic geography -- The call for social relevance in research -- The regional concept and regional geography -- The historical explanation in geography -- Impact of evolutionary biology on geographical thought: organization and ecosystem as geographical models -- Place, space and locality: the current focus in human geography -- The geography of gender -- Modern versus post-modern geographies -- Progress since World War II: continuity, change, rapprochement, and convergence ER -