Edmund William Gilbert

Edmund William Gilbert (1900–1973) was a British social geographer. He was Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, from 1953 to 1967.^[1] and Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. He defined geography in terms of the recognition of the characters of regions^[2]

In the 1920s, while at Reading University, he studied the American West.^[3] He was much influenced by Halford Mackinder, to the point of being thought an uncritical admirer.^[4]

During World War II he worked on the Naval Intelligence Handbooks, producing, with Robert Beckinsale^[5] and S. da Sá, the Spain and Portugal volumes.

Works

• The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850: An Historical Geography (1933)
• Brighton Old Ocean's Bauble (1953)
• The University Town in England and West Germany (1961)
• British Pioneers in Geography (1972)

References

• Obituary: Edmund William Gilbert, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 140, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 176–177

Notes

1. ^ untitled
2. ^ Alan R. H. Baker, Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (2003), p. 164.
3. ^ William Wyckoff, Understanding Western Places: The Historical Geographers's View, in Gary J. Hausladen (editor), Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West (2006), p. 22.
4. ^ By Mark Polelle, Raising Cartographic Consciousness (1999), pp. 3-4.
5. ^ Obituary: Robert Beckinsale | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com