ABSTRACT
Whether you have just dipped in here and there to browse, or whether you have carefully read every word, it must have struck you that there is a definite slant to this book. As I noted in the Preface, I have only had time to focus on a few of the new developments in geography, simply because these are the parts of the story I want to tell. There is also a fine tradition of humanistic learning and writing, particularly in the area of historical geography, but I feel this is a continuation of past strengths, rather than the generation of new perspectives, and there are others who are far more competent to tell that tale. But you must also be aware of another distinct bias if you have got this far: nearly all of the examples we have looked at are by geographers from the United States, Canada, Britain and Sweden. Is this fair? Are the new ideas to be found almost exclusively in these four countries – what the French call les Anglo-Saxons? Is this where the explosion in modern geography started, and continues to gather its strength?
