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Geography in Britain after World War II

Nature, Climate, and the Etchings of Time

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Editors:
  1. Max Martin

    1. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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  2. Vinita Damodaran

    1. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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  3. Rohan D'Souza

    1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Focuses on the social contexts of a group of distinguished British geographers after World War II and how they have understood landscape change across time

  • Highlights the social networks and ideologies that have underpinned the field of geography and research on environmental transformation

  • Appeals to scholars of geography and geomorphology, the history of science, and environmental history

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D’Souza
    Pages 1-15

  3. Reminiscences

    • A. T. Grove
    Pages 17-36

  4. A Half Century of Developments in Desert Geomorphology and the Place of A. T. Grove

    • Andrew Goudie
    Pages 37-65

  5. From the Highlands to the Lowlands and Back Again: Reconstructing Past Environmental Changes in South-Central and Southern Africa

    • Michael E. Meadows
    Pages 67-92

  6. Quaternary Dune Systems in Time and Space: The Legacy of A.T. Grove

    • Nicholas Lancaster
    Pages 93-114

  7. The Changing Human Environments of Eastern Saudi Arabia

    • Claudio Vita-Finzi
    Pages 115-141

  8. Migrant Birds and the Threatened Sahel: Geographies of Land Use and Degradation

    • William M. Adams
    Pages 143-169

  9. Mediterranean Forests, Woods and Shrublands

    • Harriet Allen
    Pages 171-197

  10. From Saharan Palaeoclimates to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State

    • Jeremy Keenan
    Pages 199-223

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-231
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About this book

Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia. While the discipline of geography has had much to say about how such environmental transformations occur, few studies have focused on the lives of geographers themselves, their ideologies, and how they understand their field. This edited collection illuminates the social and biographical contexts of geographers in postwar Britain who were influenced by and studied under the pioneering geomorphologist, A. T. Grove. These contributors uncover the relationships and networks that shaped their research on diverse terrains from Africa to the Mediterranean, highlighting their shared concerns which have profound implications not only for the study of geography and geomorphology, but also for questions of environmental history, ecological conservation, and human security.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran

  • Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Rohan D'Souza

About the editors

Max Martin is Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.


Vinita Damodaran is Professor of South Asian History at the University of Sussex, UK.  


Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geography in Britain after World War II

  • Book Subtitle: Nature, Climate, and the Etchings of Time

  • Editors: Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28323-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28322-3Published: 19 December 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28325-4Published: 10 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28323-0Published: 13 December 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 231

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Historical Geography, Environment Studies

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