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- Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948 – 21 March 2008) was a British cultural geographer. He taught at Oxford Polytechnic, Loughborough University, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become dean of the graduate school, and finally at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948 – 21 March 2008) was a British cultural geographer. He taught at Oxford Polytechnic, Loughborough University, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become dean of the graduate school, and finally at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jan 26, 2009 · On Good Friday 2008 Denis Cosgrove died in Los Angeles, robbing social and cultural geographers in particular, and academe in general, of a leading intellectual figure. Throughout a distinguished career spanning two continents and four decades, his generous and warm character had endeared him to many.
- Keith D. Lilley
- 2009
Cosgrove was a cultural geographer—an academic who was less interested in the scientific and statistical elements of conventional geography and very much interested in the impact of the landscape and environment on culture, society, the arts, and the humanities.
- Stacie A. Townsend
- Contributions to the Field
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University of California, Davis “There is no such thing as an uninteresting landscape!” —Denis Cosgrove
A discussion of Denis Cosgrove’s influence on modern geographical thought would be incomplete without a substantive look at some of his most influ-ential publications. Here, three of Cosgrove’s most significant writings are considered, not only in terms of the ideas they present, but also because of their larger impact on geographic dialogue and br...
A Renaissance man with a firm grounding in a single field, a pioneer of new geographies and yet a classicist, Denis Cosgrove seems at times a con-tradiction in terms. Where he most shined, however, was in proving that there was no contradiction in being identified as both a geographer and a humanist. His work will be remembered as a frontrunner in ...
Denis Cosgrove was widely viewed as the pre-eminent cultural and historical geographer of his generation.
DENIS COSGROVE (1948-2008) Denis Cosgrove, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and one of the leading cultural geogra-phers of our time, passed away at his home in the Hollywood foothills on 21 March 2008 after a two-year battle with cancer. Cosgrove was one of the
Aug 1, 2008 · Cosgrove D, Petts G (Eds), 1990 Water, Engineering, and Landscape: Water Control and Landscape Transformation in the Modern Period (Belhaven Press, London) Google Scholar. Freytag T, Jöns H, 2005, “Vision and the cultural in geography: A biographical interview with Denis Cosgrove” Die Erde number 136, 205–216. Google Scholar.
