New Universal Geography
World Geography is the title given to several sets of books of geography , whose objective is to provide a description and analysis of the entire world , with data from both physical and human. This name is not always the exact title of the sets in question.
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Different Geographies universal
Conrad Malte-Brun
Conrad Malte-Brun was the first to write a Summary of the geography of the world from 1810. His publication, consisted of 6 volumes, was completed after his death by one of his collaborators, Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot. Discovering the real world, this book was trying to say this still emerging discipline that was the geography.
Thophile Lavalle reissued version of "consolidated and made aware of the science" of the work of Malte-Brun in updating the data. This new edition was published in Paris by Furne and Co. between 1855 and 1858.
Elisha Recluse
Elisha Recluse wrote alone, in Switzerland, New Universal Geography, published by Hachette between 1876 and 1894 , which was also illustrated by his friend cartographer Charles Perron. Subtitled earth and men, the book includes 19 volumes, each tackling a geographical area (volume 2 is exclusively focused on France). Each volume is provided with maps in color, prints in black and white and an index of names and places mentioned. For the section on the British , he was inspired by the work of Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco.
From the second volume, called the process Reclus Gillot allowing it to bypass the drive to Paris.
Paul Vidal de la Blache and Lucien Welsh
Paul Vidal de la Blache designed a Universal Geography by dividing the world into his students ( Pierre Denis supports Volume XV, devoted to South America ). But it's Lucien Welsh applying the project and runs after the death of Vidal in 1918. Publication by Armand Colin ranges then between 1927 and 1948. Composed of 15 regional volumes (some in two volumes, which makes a total of 21 volumes), this new set is a work of academic geographer while the works of Malte-Brun and Reclus were primarily those of geographers "travelers". Vidal and Welsh team then surrounded by letting each volume under the responsibility of a specialist in the study area. Of photographs in black and white prints are replacing.
Quillet
Another Universal Geography is published at the same time as that of Vidal and Welsh, among Quillet , between 1923 and 1928. Only consists of 4 volumes, it gathers primarily Vidalian which nothing has been entrusted to the draft Vidal despite their loyalty, and some followers of Raoul Blanchard.
This work was a great public success was relatively forgotten but later considered as minor in the history of geographical thought.
Roger Brunet and GIP-Reclus
In the late 1980's , Roger Brunet calls the writing of another Universal Geography within the GIP-Reclus he founded. Co-published by Belin and GIP-Reclus between 1990 and 1996 , this version consists of 10 volumes, a collaboration of hundreds of geographers. Boasting color photography and scientific advances, it incorporates many conceptual stage, with for example the use of choremes.
Bibliography
- Robert Ferras , Geographies and the universal world of their time, GIP Reclus, 1989.
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