W R Mead

Biographic Data

ID	330378
NAME	W R Mead
GIVEN NAMES	W R
FAMILY NAME	Mead
SIGNATURE	MEAD W R
AFFILIATIONS	University College London
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	93
TOTAL CITATIONS	177
AUTHOR COUNT	93
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1906
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2020
H-INDEX	8

Scandinavian cartography 1650–1800
W R MeadARTICLENorsk Geografisk Tidsskrift -…2020
Originally written in 1985, the article provided the first general overview of the history of cartography in the Nordic countries for the period 1650–1800. The objective of the article is to show how the mapping of Northern Europe developed during that period. It is based on available literature and extensive studies in Scandinavian map archives. Mapping activities included property mapping for taxation and land reorganization, early town plans, …
Obituary: Torsten Hägerstrand 1916-2004
Open AccessW R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal2004Cited by: 1
Stig Torsten Erik Hägerstrand, a Swede devoted to his homeland, a good European and a citizen of the world, died in Lund on 3 May 2004. He was one of the most distinguished geographers of his generation. In thought, word and deed he sought throughout his long academic career to bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities. Torsten revered Linnaeus, von Humboldt and the pedagogical methods of Pestalozzi and drew inspiration from his teac…
Obituary: William Gordon East, 1902–1998
Open AccessW R MeadARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1998
Die Grosse Nordische Expedition: Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746)
W R Mead, Wieland Hintzsche et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1998
Mare Balticum: The Baltic: Two Thousand Years
W R Mead, Ulla Ehrensvärd et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1997
The Danish Revolution 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation
W R Mead, Thorkild KjaergaardARTICLEGeographical Journal1996Cited by: 8
Scandinavia
W R Mead, Brian Fullerton et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1992
Finland in a Changing Europe
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1991Cited by: 4References: 1
The cultural landscape—Past, present and future
Open AccessW R MeadARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1990Cited by: 1
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments
W R Mead, Denis Cosgrove et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1989Cited by: 26
The Power of Geography
W R Mead, Jennifer Wolch et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1989
Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden 1750-1850
W R Mead, Allen PredARTICLEGeographical Journal1986Cited by: 25
Nature's Ideological Landscape: A Literary and Geographic Perspective on Its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath
W R Mead, Kenneth R Olwig et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1985Cited by: 15
Scandinavian Atlas of Historic Towns, Sweden: Uppsala, Denmark: Ribe, 1500-1950
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1985
Problems of Norden
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1985
The Physical Environment of the Faeroe Islands
W R Mead, G K RutherfordARTICLEGeographical Journal1983Cited by: 1
The Representation of Finland Further Geographical Reflections on Finska Hushallningssallskapet
W R MeadARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…1982
The Representation of Finland: Further Geographical Reflections on Finska Hushållningssällskapet
W R MeadARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…1982References: 1
Humanistic Geography and Literature. Essays on the Experience of Place
W R Mead, Douglas Pocock et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1982Cited by: 27
An Historical Geography of Scandinavia
J T Coppock, W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1982Cited by: 1
Valued Environments
W R Mead, J R Gold et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1982
Times, Spaces and Places. A Chronogeographic Perspective
W R Mead, Don Parkes et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1981Cited by: 30
Growth and Transformation of the Modern City. The Stockholm Conference, University of Stockholm, 1979
W R Mead, Ingrid Hammarstrom et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1981
The Human Experience of Space and Place
W R MeadREVIEWGeographical Journal1981
Atlas of Finland: Folios 234 and 311
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1981

Invitation to Refugees
W R Mead, William MeadARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1906
Ribe
W R MeadARTICLEEconomic Geography1941
Three City Ports of Denmark
W R MeadARTICLEEconomic Geography1942
Sogn and Fjordane in the Fiord Economy of Western Norway
W R MeadARTICLEEconomic Geography1947
N ORWAY falls into five natural geographical areas-Eastland, Southland, Westland, Tr6ndelag and North Norway. The characteristics of fiord economy are most fully developed in Westland, of which Sogn and Fjordane form one of the four fylker or counties. Sogne and Fjordane is an entirely rural area, penetrated by two major fiords (Sogn and Nordfiords) and one lesser intermediary fiord (Sunnfiord). The fylke is located midway between the two regiona…
The Finnish Outlook, East and West
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1949
The recurring tragedy of Finland is that of a marchland state subject to the dual control of Eastern and Western Europe. It lies between the Russian circle of strategic control and the Atlantic circle of economic control. As a political unit it is dependent on Russian policy; though it is separated from the U.S.S.R. by one of the most effective natural barriers in Europe. As an economic unit it is oriented to Western markets and linked to them by…
The Cold Farm in Finland: Resettlement of Finland's Displaced Farmers
Open AccessW R MeadARTICLEGeographical Review1951Cited by: 1
IN September, I944, nearly 35,ooo Finnish families left their in territory ceded to the U.S.S.R. and entered as refagees into the remaining nine-tenths of Finland; by mid-i95i all had found new holdings. Holdings were acquired mostly through resettlement legislation passed in May, I945.' Tw-o distinct types of were established: so-called farms and warm farms. Cold are those which the yield at the moment of establishment does not exceed ten per ce…
Scandinavia. Between East and West
Open AccessW R Mead, Henning Friis et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1951Cited by: 1
World Political Geography
W R MeadARTICLEInternational Affairs1952
Journal Article World Political Geography Get access World Political Geography. By G. Etzel Pearcy, Russell H. Fifield, and Associates. Cartography by Robert J. Voskuil. New York, Growell, 1948; London, Constable, 1952. xv+653 pp. Diagrams. Maps. Charts. Tables. Index. 934′ ′×7′ ′ . $6.50. 45s. W. R. Mead W. R. Mead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 3, July 1952, Page …
An Introduction to the Geography of the Canadian Arctic
W R MeadARTICLEInternational Affairs1952
Journal Article An Introduction to the Geography of the Canadian Arctic Get access An Introduction to the Geography of the Canadian Arctic. By the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical Branch, Canada. Mimeographed. Preface by J. Wreford Watson. Ottawa, King's Printer, 1951. xiii+118 pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. (Canadian Geography Information Series No. 2.) 914′ ′×6′ ′ . 50 cents. W. R. Mead W. R. Mead Search for other works by thi…
La Politique des États et Leur Géographie
W R MeadARTICLEInternational Affairs1952Cited by: 1
Journal Article La Politique des États et Leur Géographie Get access La Politique des États et Leur Géographie. By Jean Gottmann. Paris, Librairie” Armand Colin, 1952. xi+225 pp. (Collection ‘Sciences Politiques’.) 9” × 53⁄4”. Frs. 670. W. R. Mead W. R. Mead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 4, October 1952, Pages 478–479, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604191 Published: 01 …
Finnish Karelia: An International Borderland: Discussion
W G East, A H Hicks et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1952
Finnish Karelia: An International Borderland
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1952Cited by: 1
IN 1850 Royal Geographical Society was addressed for first time by a Finn?the Arabian explorer, G. A. Wallin, who recounted his experiences in terra incognita of Middle East. Ironically enough, his own northeastern homeland was equally little known to England of his time. Today, Finland is far from unknown in Great Britain; but its component parts are still not clarified in our geographical works and no part is more worthy of attention than Finni…
Germany: A General and Regional Geography
W R Mead, Robert E DickinsonARTICLEInternational Affairs1953Cited by: 1
Germany: a General and Regional Geography Get access Germany: a General and Regional Geography. By Robert E. Dickinson. London, Methuen, 1953. xxiii+700 pp. Illus. Maps. Charts. Tables. Bibliog. Index. 91′4 × 6′ . 50s. W. R. Mead W. R. Mead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 29, Issue 3, July 1953, Page 359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604733 Published: 01 July 1953
Czechoslovakia: A Geographical and Historical Study
W R MeadARTICLEInternational Affairs1954
Czechoslovakia: A Geographical and Historical Study Get access Czechoslovakia: A Geographical and Historical Study. By Harriet Wanklyn. Foreword By H. G. Steers. London, George Philip, 1954, xviii + 446 pp. Illus. Maps. Tables. Index. 834′ ′×534′ ′ 30s. W. R. Mead W. R. Mead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 30, Issue 3, July 1954, Page 361, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605773 Publi…
A Geography of Europe
Open AccessW R Mead, George W Hoffman et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1954
Farming in Finland
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1954
Farming in Finland
Eugene Van Cleef, W R MeadARTICLEEconomic Geography1954
Ridge and Furrow in Buckinghamshire
W R MeadARTICLEGeographical Journal1954Cited by: 10
Political Geography and the World Map
W R MeadARTICLEInternational Affairs1955Cited by: 1
Finland and its Geography: An American Geographical Society Handbook
W R MeadARTICLEInternational Affairs1957
Journal Article Finland and its Geography: An American Geographical Society Handbook Get access Finland and its Geography: An American Geographical Society Handbook. Ed. by Raye R. Platt. London, Methuen, 1957. xxv+510 pp. Illus. Diagrams. Maps. Tables. Index. 60s. W. R. Mead W. R. Mead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 1957, Pages 496–497, https://doi.org/1…
The British Moorlands: A Problem in Land Utilization
W R Mead, John Fraser HartARTICLEEconomic Geography1957
Seven Deserted Village Sites in Leicestershire
W R Mead, W G HoskinsARTICLEGeographical Journal1957
The Intensification of Finnish Farming
Jaatinen, S Jaatinen et al.ARTICLEEconomic Geography1957Cited by: 1
Coast Lapp Society: I. A Study of Neighbourhood in Revsbotn Fiord
W R Mead, Robert Treat Paine et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1958
The Scandinavian World
W R Mead, Andrew C O''Dell et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1958