On The Idealist Alternative In Geography And History*

In the February 1977 issue of THE PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER Leonard Guelke proposed a new approach to regional geography. This article questions the logic of Guelke's “idealist alternative'’and its applicability to geographical problems.     

Recent Geography Dissertations And Theses Completed And In Preparation

Titles followed by an asterisk in the list below are available on interlibrary loan. The next list of titles will be published in the October, 1971 issue. The list has been prepared by Leslie Hewes of the University of Nebraska.     

Statistical Power Analysis And Geography 1

The genesis of most urban problems can only be understood in the context of the capitalist global economy in which the geography of development is necessarily countered by a geography of underdevelopment, at all spatial scales. Realization of this fundamental point implies that urban problems can never be solved within a capitalist context, only spatially rearranged. Geographers concerned with inequalities are therefore faced with a dilemma: either they work to redistribute welfare and illfare in the world or they work for the unmasking and replacement of capitalism.