E._W._Gilbert

Edmund William Gilbert

Edmund William Gilbert

British social geographer

For the US actor, see Ed Gilbert.
"E. W. Gilbert" redirects here. For the Presbyterian minister, see Eliphalet Wheeler 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.

He studied at St Peter's School, York[6]

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. [1]
    untitled
  2. [2]
    Alan R. H. Baker, Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (2003), p. 164.
  3. [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. [4]
    By Mark Polelle, Raising Cartographic Consciousness (1999), pp. 3-4.
  5. [5]
    Obituary: Robert Beckinsale | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com
  6. [6]
    https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-41116?rskey=TCez9Q&result=121
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