1. Biography and the history of geography: a response to Ron Johnston.
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Driver, Felix and Baigent, Elizabeth
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS & dictionaries ,ELECTRONIC dictionaries ,ELECTRONIC reference sources ,REFERENCE sources ,GEOGRAPHY ,COLLEGE curriculum ,BIOGRAPHIES ,HISTORIANS ,SCHOLARS - Abstract
The article discusses the author's emphasis on the significance of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) to illuminate aspects of the history of the academic discipline of geography in Great Britain. It is stressed that this paper concentrates on neglect of the generic form of biographical writing, specifically its narrowing of perspective on what comprises the field of geography. The author affirms that this dictionary offers geography historians an important new resource. ODNB, in its electronic form, is described as more easily accessed and debated.
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- 2007
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