Giving voice to geography: Popular lectures and the diffusion of knowledge

Scottish Geographical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 198-203

  Keighren, Innes M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ellen Churchill Semple; Geographic thought; Historical geography; popular lectures; scientific knowledge

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IDEOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 56349085560     PISSN: 14702541     EISSN: 1751665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14702540802411782     Document Type: Article

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