Agnew is currently Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA). From 1975 until 1995 he was a professor at Syracuse University in New York. Dr. Agnew teachescourses on political geography, the history of geography, European cities, and the Mediterranean World.  My research interests congregate around several related themes: the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientific culture, and the historical geographies of science and religion. I am currently involved in writing a social history of climatic determinism from Herodotus to Global Warming under the working title ‘The Empire of Climate’’. This project is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship.

If we are to take seriously the idea that events, practices, and ideas should not be divorced from their historical and geographical context, then geographical knowledge itself needs to be temporally and spatially situated. Motivated by that proposition, Agnew and Livingston have put together a Handbook that recasts geography’s history in original, thought-provoking ways. Eschewing the usual chronological march through leading figures and big ideas, the Handbook looks at geography against the backdrop of the places and institutional contexts where it has been produced, and the social-cum-intellectual currents underlying some of its most important concepts. The result is a book that fleshes out often-neglected aspects of the discipline’s history, even as it consistently encourages thinking about the relationship between geographical practices and the places, circumstances, and understandings in which those practices are embeddedAlexander B. MurphyDepartment of Geography, University of OregonThe Handbook provides a refreshingly innovative approach to charting geographical knowledge. A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement. This creative and comprehensive book offers an extremely valuable tool to professionals and students alikeVictoria LawsonUniversity of Washington

• Introduction - John A. Agnew and David N. LivingstonePART ONE: ORIENTATIONSGeography′s Geneologies - Robert J. MayhewGeography′s Narratives and Intellectual History - Charles W. J. WithersPART TWO: GEOGRAPHY′S VENUESThe Field - Keith RichardsMuseums - Simon Naylor and Jude HillLaboratory/Observatory - Scott KirschArchive - Miles OgbornBotanical Gardens and Zoos - Nuala C. JohnsonLearned Societies - Michael HeffernanGeography Information Systems Laboratory - Michael F. GoodchildArt Studio - Stephen DanielsThe Weather Station and the Meteorological Office - Keith RichardsCentre of Circulation - Heike JönsRemote Sensing - Yongwei ShengSpaces of Hegemony? Circuits of Value, Finance Capital and Places of Financial Knowledge - Roger LeeThe Mission - Georgina EndfieldBattlefield - Gerard Toal/Gearóid Ó TuathailMaking Mathematical Models Perform in Geographical Space(s) - Stuart N. LaneSubaltern Space - Daniel ClaytonPublic Sphere - Mustafa DikecThe Role of Geography and Geographers in Policy and Government Departments - Tim UnwinPART THREE: CRITICAL CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIESNature and Society - Noel CastreeLandscape - John WylieSpace and Place - John AgnewTime - Mike CrangRegion and Regionalism - J. Nicholas EntrikinMap - Anne Godlewska and Jason Grek MartinEnvironmental Determinism - David N. LivingstoneSpatial Analysis - Trevor J. BarnesDynamics and Complexity - Christopher J. KeylockSocial Class - Eric Sheppard and James GlassmanRace/Ethnicity - Caroline BresseyGender - Joanne SharpThe Idea of Evolution in Geographical Thought - Neil RobertsEcosystem - George P. MalansonLandform - Nick SpeddingThe Cycle of Erosion: Changing Times, Changing Science - Antony R. OrmeGlaciation and Ice Ages - Bryan MarkRivers and Drainage Basins - Nick CliffordEnvironmental Change - Andrew GoudieGlobal Climate Change - Glen M. MacdonaldThe City - Phil HubbardUrban-Rural - Paul ClokeMobility - Tim CresswellConservation and Environmental Concern - Michael WilliamsDevelopment - Robert B. Potter and Dennis ConwayGeopolitics - Gerry Kearns