Introduction

Gary S. Dunbar

1-7

History of German geography

worldwide reputation and strategies of nationalisation and institutionalisation

Bruno Schelhaas, Ingrid Hönsch

9-44

Geography in France

context, practice, and text

45-78

A partial biography

the formalization and institutionalization of geography in Britain since 1887

79-119

Modern geography in Italy

from the archives to environmental management

Ilaria Luzzana Caraci

121-151

Geography and geographers in the Netherlands since the 1870s

serving colonialism, education, and the welfare state

Ben De Pater

153-190

Stories on the making of geography in Sweden

Anne Buttimer

191-223

Geography in Russia

glories and disappointments

David M. Hooson

225-243

Academic geography, American style

an institutional perspective

William A. Koelsch

245-279

The development of geographical study in Canada, 1870–2000

John Warkentin, Paul Simpson-Housley

281-315