Human Geography

by Jerome D. Fellmann, Judith Getis, Arthur Getis

Fellmann's Human Geography introduces students to the scope and excitement of human geography and its relevance to their daily lives. This edition continues to convey the breadth of human geography and to provide insight into the nature and intellectual challenges of the field of geography itself. The authors pay special attention to gender issues and assume no previous experience in geography on the part of the students.

Genres: Reference, School, Geography, Textbooks, Nonfiction, History

544 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1989

About the author

Jerome Fellmann received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Except for visiting professorships at Wayne State University, the University of British Columbia, and California State University/Northridge, his professional career has been spent at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching and research interests have been concentrated in the areas of human geography in general and urban and economic geography in particular, in geographic bibliography, the geography of Russia and the CIS, and geographic education. His varied interests have been reflected in articles published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Professional Geographer, Journal of Geography, the Geographical Review, and elsewhere. He is the coauthor of McGraw-Hill’s Introduction to Geography. In addition to teaching and research, he has held administrative appointments at the University of Illinois and served as a consultant to private corporations on matters of economic and community development.

Reviews

[Valerie Cotnoir · Rating 4 out of 5]

While it was biased and definitely rambled, I think the authors did a good job of admitting there's always two sides to every story and adding real world examples to their definitions and theories. The maps and graphs really helped me visualize what they were trying to say as well.

[L. O'Neil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Textbook for one of my Geography degree courses.