swap_horiz H.R. Mill Alternatives

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David Harvey

British geographer and social theorist David Harvey connects the study of cities with political economy and Marxist anal...

20TH Century Urban Critical British

9.20 Excellent

2

Doreen Massey

For British geographer Doreen Massey, places were formed through changing social relations rather than existing as isola...

Space 20TH Century Place British

9.12 Excellent

3

George Perkins Marsh

George Perkins Marsh, who lived from 1801 to 1882, was an American diplomat, philologist, and public thinker whose work...

American 19TH Century Conservation Environment

9.08 Excellent

4

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

9.02 Excellent

5

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

8.83 Great

6

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

8.80 Great

7

Halford Mackinder

Halford Mackinder was a British geographer and political thinker who lived from 1861 to 1947. In his 1904 paper "The Geo...

19TH Century British Political Geopolitics

8.55 Great

8

Denis Cosgrove

Denis Cosgrove was a British cultural geographer whose research examined landscape, visual representation, cartography,...

Cultural 20TH Century British Landscape

8.44 Great

9

Michael Batty

Michael Batty is a British geographer and urban planner known for using mathematical models, computation, and complexity...

Simulation Contemporary Urban British

8.40 Great

10

Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose is a British geographer whose research examines visual culture, feminist theory, and the ways images produc...

Contemporary Visual British Feminist

8.38 Great

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Piers Blaikie

Piers Blaikie is a British geographer whose work helped establish political ecology as a field linking environmental cha...

Contemporary Development Environment British

8.36 Great

12

James Rennell

James Rennell was a British surveyor, cartographer, and geographer who lived from 1742 to 1830. Working for the East Ind...

18TH Century India British Oceanography

8.32 Great

13

Nigel Thrift

Nigel Thrift is a British geographer and social theorist associated with the development of non-representational theory....

Social 20TH Century Urban British

8.28 Great

14

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

8.18 Great

15

Stan Openshaw

Stan Openshaw was a British geographer known for advancing quantitative geography, spatial analysis, and computer-based...

20TH Century Spatial Analysis British Quantitative

8.12 Great

16

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

8.10 Great

17

Ron Johnston

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

20TH Century British Political Methodology

8.10 Great

18

Stuart Elden

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

Philosophy Contemporary British Political

8.06 Great

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Arnold Henry Guyot

Arnold Henry Guyot (1807–1884) was a Swiss-American geographer and geologist who made significant contributions to physi...

Education 19TH Century Glacial Physical

7.36 Good

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Vaughan Cornish

Vaughan Cornish was a British geographer whose research examined coastal processes, waves, beaches, and other features o...

Scenery 20TH Century British Physical

6.55 Fair