swap_horiz Halford Mackinder Alternatives

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David Harvey

David Harvey is a British geographer and social theorist whose work connects urbanization, political economy, and Marxis...

20TH Century Urban Critical British

9.2 Excellent

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George Perkins Marsh

George Perkins Marsh was an American diplomat, philologist, and public thinker who lived from 1801 to 1882. His 1864 boo...

American 19TH Century Conservation Environment

9.1 Excellent

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Doreen Massey

Doreen Massey was a British geographer whose work reshaped debates about space, place, globalization, and regional inequ...

Space 20TH Century Place British

9.1 Excellent

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Paul Vidal de la Blache

Paul Vidal de la Blache was a French geographer who lived from 1845 to 1918 and played a central role in establishing ac...

French 19TH Century Regional Human

9.0 Excellent

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Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter was a German geographer whose work helped establish geography as a modern academic discipline during the 19t...

German 19TH Century Regional Human

8.8 Great

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Élisée Reclus

Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist who lived from 1830 to 1905. He wrote the 19 volume Nouvell...

French 19TH Century Regional Human

8.8 Great

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Gearóid Ó Tuathail

Gearóid Ó Tuathail, also known as Gerard Toal, is an Irish-born political geographer and a prominent scholar of critical...

Contemporary Media Political Irish American

8.5 Great

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Gerard Toal

Gerard Toal, who also publishes under the Irish form Gearóid Ó Tuathail, is a political geographer associated with the d...

Contemporary Political Balkans Irish American

8.5 Great

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Friedrich Ratzel

Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer who lived from 1844 to 1904. He helped establish anthropogeogr...

German 19TH Century Political Human

8.2 Great

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John Agnew

John Agnew is a British-American political geographer known for research on geopolitics, territory, sovereignty, and the...

20TH Century Place Political Geopolitics

8.2 Great

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Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville was a Scottish mathematician and science writer who lived from 1780 to 1872 and became known for synthes...

19TH Century British Synthesis Physical

8.1 Great

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Ron Johnston

Ron Johnston was a British human geographer whose research covered electoral geography, political geography, urban socia...

20TH Century British Political Methodology

8.1 Great

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Yves Lacoste

Yves Lacoste is a French geographer known for helping reestablish geopolitics as a field of public and academic analysis...

French Contemporary Critical Political

8.1 Great

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Stuart Elden

Stuart Elden is a British political geographer whose work connects geography with political theory, philosophy, and inte...

Philosophy Contemporary British Political

8.1 Great

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Klaus Dodds

Klaus Dodds is a British political geographer associated with Royal Holloway, University of London. His research examine...

Contemporary Popular British Geopolitics

7.7 Good

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James Sidaway

James D. Sidaway is a British political geographer whose research addresses geopolitics, postcolonialism, development, a...

Contemporary Space British Geopolitics

7.7 Good

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Joanne Sharp

Joanne Sharp is a Scottish human geographer and academic associated with the University of Glasgow. Her research examine...

Contemporary British Political Postcolonial

7.6 Good

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Colin Flint

Colin Flint is an American political geographer and academic known for his extensive research on geopolitics, world-syst...

Contemporary Political Geopolitics Conflict

7.3 Good

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Marcus Power

British geographer at Durham University known for postcolonial geopolitics and development geography, particularly regar...

Contemporary British Africa Geopolitics

7.1 Good

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H.R. Mill

Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950) was a British geographer and meteorologist whose work connected physical geography, rainfal...

19TH Century British Oceanography Rainfall

6.9 Fair