William A Koelsch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 968597 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William A Koelsch |
| NOMBRES | William A |
| APELLIDO | Koelsch |
| FIRMA | KOELSCH W A |
| AFILIACIONES | Clark University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
On manipulating the evidence
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam A. KoelschDr. Koelsch is emeritus professor of history and geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610; [[email protected]]
The Geography of Strabo
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes. Translated by Duane W. Roller, xv and 891 pp; maps, bibliog., index. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $190.00 (cloth), isbn 9781107038257. Poor Strabo! To geographers he is hapless host who gave party to which nobody came. To classicists wedded to traditional canon, he is like whore's child at wedding, to borrow phrase from novelist Mary Renault's Mask…
Miss Semple meets the historians
The Legendary “Rediscovery” of George Perkins Marsh
The conventional narrative regarding the American reception of George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature (1864), is that his work and ideas were “lost,”“forgotten,” or “neglected” until Lewis Mumford “rediscovered” him and introduced him to geographers at the University of California‐Berkeley through The Brown Decades (Mumford [1931] 1955) and until Carl Sauer made him known to the profession at large beginning in 1938. This article upends t…
Henry Fanshawe Tozer
This fragment of an ongoing research project into the historical relations of geography and classics introduces a minor but significant scholar, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829–1916). Tozer’s lectures on the geography of ancient Greece as part of an effort to modernize Oxford University’s curriculum; his exploratory travels in the Balkans, the Aegean, and Asia Minor that resulted in three classic volumes; his book of selections from Strabo as an alter…
Thomas Jefferson, American Geographers, And The Uses of geography
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) had a lifelong interest in geography. Except for his role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a few references to his Notes on the State of Virginia, however, geographers have taken a relatively slight interest in this aspect of his thought, despite his having sometimes been referred to as "one of the greatest American geographers." This essay suggests that we need to reexamine Jefferson as a geographical thinker. R…
Franz Boas, geographer, and the problem of disciplinary identity
This paper examines Franz Boas as an aspiring professional geographer during the 1880s: his Baffin Land research, his publications, his participation in geography organizations, and his struggle to attain a university appointment in geography. Frustrated by a seeming lack of opportunity for advancement in Germany, Boas explored career opportunities as a geographer in America and launched a series of unsuccessful but meaningful attempts to dominat…
Squinting Back at Strabo
Strabo of Amasia (ca. 64 B.c.‐ca. A.D. 23) wrote the first comprehensive geography of the world known to the Greeks and Romans. Interest in Strabo and his Geography, which survives nearly intact in seventeen books, has fluctuated over the centuries among both classicists and historians of geography. After some historical background on Strabo and his reception, this essay considers the contribution of two significant recent English‐language treatm…
William H. Tillinghast, John K. Wright, and some antecedents of American humanistic geography
The Shaping of America
The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century
Sketches of Urban and Cultural Life in North America
The "Magic Decade" revisited
Clark psychology in the post-Hallian era has attracted little attention from scholars. The only general account, Carl Murchison's “Recollections of a Magic Decade at Clark” (1959), is both partisan and limited in scope. This paper examines the “second cycle” of the Clark department in a period of unusual productivity in research, publication, and graduate training from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties, as well as the internal tensions and con…
The Founding of Yale
Clark University, 1887-1987
Clark University, 1887-1987. A Narrative History
Book Jacket description: "One hundred years ago Clark University emerged as part of a growing network of American research universities intended to be the peers of any in Europe. Opening in the fall of 1889 as an all-graduate and research institution, and having added an undergraduate program in 1902, the institution has retained its comparative smallness while actively maintaining both the research mission and the international scholarly relatio…
Ben Franklin's Heir
THE tale of Ben Franklin and his kite, like that of Paul Revere and the lantern in the Old North Church tower or Davy Crockett at the Alamo, has long been one of those curiosities of American history that straddles the line between verifiable knowledge and legend. Despite the fact that Franklin was the first American to gain an international reputation in pure science, the importance of his model lay less in its research design than in its power …
Psychoanalysis arrives in America
Psychoanalysis arrives in America
Antebellum Harvard students and the recreational exploration of the New England landscape
Wallace Atwood's “Great Geographical Institute”∗
The decision to establish geography as a graduate academic discipline at Clark University beginning in 1921 is examined as a part of the strategy and structure of academic entrepreneurial activity. The institutional strategy of Charles Thurber, President of the Clark Board of Trustees and of President Wallace W. Atwood is traced from its formal inception in 1919 through its early implementation to the end of 1923. The ideal of a “Great Geographic…
The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, vol. I, the formative years, 1822–1852
The American landscape
American Habitat
Journal Article American Habitat: A Historical Perspective Get access American Habitat: A Historical Perspective. Edited by Rosenkrantz Barbara Gutmann Koelsch William A.. (New York: Free Press, 1973. xi, 372 p. Illustrations, photographs, figures, index. $10.00.) Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issu…
G. Stanley Hall
Squinting Back at Strabo
Strabo of Amasia (ca. 64 B.c.‐ca. A.D. 23) wrote the first comprehensive geography of the world known to the Greeks and Romans. Interest in Strabo and his Geography, which survives nearly intact in seventeen books, has fluctuated over the centuries among both classicists and historians of geography. After some historical background on Strabo and his reception, this essay considers the contribution of two significant recent English‐language treatm…
Sketches of Urban and Cultural Life in North America
Miss Semple meets the historians
The Legendary “Rediscovery” of George Perkins Marsh
The conventional narrative regarding the American reception of George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature (1864), is that his work and ideas were “lost,”“forgotten,” or “neglected” until Lewis Mumford “rediscovered” him and introduced him to geographers at the University of California‐Berkeley through The Brown Decades (Mumford [1931] 1955) and until Carl Sauer made him known to the profession at large beginning in 1938. This article upends t…
Franz Boas, geographer, and the problem of disciplinary identity
This paper examines Franz Boas as an aspiring professional geographer during the 1880s: his Baffin Land research, his publications, his participation in geography organizations, and his struggle to attain a university appointment in geography. Frustrated by a seeming lack of opportunity for advancement in Germany, Boas explored career opportunities as a geographer in America and launched a series of unsuccessful but meaningful attempts to dominat…
Wallace Atwood's “Great Geographical Institute”∗
The decision to establish geography as a graduate academic discipline at Clark University beginning in 1921 is examined as a part of the strategy and structure of academic entrepreneurial activity. The institutional strategy of Charles Thurber, President of the Clark Board of Trustees and of President Wallace W. Atwood is traced from its formal inception in 1919 through its early implementation to the end of 1923. The ideal of a “Great Geographic…
The Historical Geography of Harlan H. Barrows
The career of Harlan H. Barrows illustrates some of the methodological problems of the history of geographic thought as well as some of the facts of the establishment of historical geography in the American university world. Barrows “environmentalist’ position, as applied in the development of this field, allowed him to make significant shifts from the quest for a more precise formulation of the effects of environmental influences to an implicit …
Clark University, 1887-1987. A Narrative History
Book Jacket description: "One hundred years ago Clark University emerged as part of a growing network of American research universities intended to be the peers of any in Europe. Opening in the fall of 1889 as an all-graduate and research institution, and having added an undergraduate program in 1902, the institution has retained its comparative smallness while actively maintaining both the research mission and the international scholarly relatio…
Thomas Jefferson, American Geographers, And The Uses of geography
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) had a lifelong interest in geography. Except for his role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a few references to his Notes on the State of Virginia, however, geographers have taken a relatively slight interest in this aspect of his thought, despite his having sometimes been referred to as "one of the greatest American geographers." This essay suggests that we need to reexamine Jefferson as a geographical thinker. R…
The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century
Antebellum Harvard students and the recreational exploration of the New England landscape
Acadia
Three Centuries and the Island
This study is one of the first in the field of historical geography to be published in Canada. By the analysis of over 1200 maps, Professor Clark studies agriculture as the dominant economic activity of Prince Edward Island and traces with remarkable clarity through the changing patterns of land culture throughout the province
Historical Geography of the North Carolina Outer Banks
The Urbanization of America, 1860-1915
(1964). The Urbanization of America, 1860–1915. Economic Geography: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 373-375
Geography Now and Then
Human Nature in Geography
German Seed in Texas Soil
Introduction 2. Nineteenth-Century Southern Agriculture and Its Expansion into Texas 3. Nineteenth-Century German Farmers and Their Emigration to Texas 4. Germans in the Cotton Kingdom: The Eastern End of the German Belt, 1831-1885 5. Germans on the Rim of the Desert: The Western End of the German Belt, 1844-1885 6. Conclusion: The Importance of Cultural Heritage in the Agricultural Systems of the Immigrant Groups Appendix Bibliography Index
The Historical Geography of Harlan H. Barrows
The career of Harlan H. Barrows illustrates some of the methodological problems of the history of geographic thought as well as some of the facts of the establishment of historical geography in the American university world. Barrows “environmentalist’ position, as applied in the development of this field, allowed him to make significant shifts from the quest for a more precise formulation of the effects of environmental influences to an implicit …
The Domesday Geography of South-West England
1. Bedfordshire Ella M. J. Campbell 2. Hertfordshire Ella M. J. Campbell 3. Middlesex Ella M. J. Campbell 4. Buckinghamshire Ella M. J. Campbell 5. Oxfordshire E. M Jope and I. B. Terrett 6. Berkshire Ella M. J. Campbell 7. Hampshire R. Weldon Finn 8. Surrey C. W. Lloyd 9. Sussex S. H. King 10. Kent Ella M. J. Campbell 11. The South-Eastern Counties H. C. Darby
Acadia
Chicago
This is the story of Chicago and how it grew. In a little over a century it rose from a mere frontier outpost to become one of the great cities of the world. No single book can possibly encompass the immense scope of this development or convey the endless diversity of the life of Chicago's people. But with the help of the camera it is possible to capture many dimensions of this extraordinary story. This volume, however, which comprises over 1,000…
G. Stanley Hall
The American landscape
American Habitat
Journal Article American Habitat: A Historical Perspective Get access American Habitat: A Historical Perspective. Edited by Rosenkrantz Barbara Gutmann Koelsch William A.. (New York: Free Press, 1973. xi, 372 p. Illustrations, photographs, figures, index. $10.00.) Roderick Nash Roderick Nash University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issu…
The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, vol. I, the formative years, 1822–1852
Wallace Atwood's “Great Geographical Institute”∗
The decision to establish geography as a graduate academic discipline at Clark University beginning in 1921 is examined as a part of the strategy and structure of academic entrepreneurial activity. The institutional strategy of Charles Thurber, President of the Clark Board of Trustees and of President Wallace W. Atwood is traced from its formal inception in 1919 through its early implementation to the end of 1923. The ideal of a “Great Geographic…
Antebellum Harvard students and the recreational exploration of the New England landscape
Psychoanalysis arrives in America
Psychoanalysis arrives in America
Ben Franklin's Heir
THE tale of Ben Franklin and his kite, like that of Paul Revere and the lantern in the Old North Church tower or Davy Crockett at the Alamo, has long been one of those curiosities of American history that straddles the line between verifiable knowledge and legend. Despite the fact that Franklin was the first American to gain an international reputation in pure science, the importance of his model lay less in its research design than in its power …
The Founding of Yale
Clark University, 1887-1987
Clark University, 1887-1987. A Narrative History
Book Jacket description: "One hundred years ago Clark University emerged as part of a growing network of American research universities intended to be the peers of any in Europe. Opening in the fall of 1889 as an all-graduate and research institution, and having added an undergraduate program in 1902, the institution has retained its comparative smallness while actively maintaining both the research mission and the international scholarly relatio…
Sketches of Urban and Cultural Life in North America
The "Magic Decade" revisited
Clark psychology in the post-Hallian era has attracted little attention from scholars. The only general account, Carl Murchison's “Recollections of a Magic Decade at Clark” (1959), is both partisan and limited in scope. This paper examines the “second cycle” of the Clark department in a period of unusual productivity in research, publication, and graduate training from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties, as well as the internal tensions and con…
The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century
Geography (21 obras) · History (20 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (12 obras) · Economic geography (12 obras) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras)