Lowenthal, David (Personal Name)

His George Perkins Marsh, 1958.

Landscape meanings and values, 1986: CIP t.p. (David Lowenthal, Dept. of Geography, University College London) data sheet (b. 4-26-23)

His The past is a foreign country - revisited, 2013: ECIP title page (David Lowenthal) data view (birth date: April 26, 1923)

Guardian WWW site, viewed Sept 27, 2018 (David Lowenthal, historian and geographer, born 26 April 1923, New York City; died 15 September 2018; American-born but British by inclination, David became professor of geography at UCL in 1972, retiring as emeritus professor in 1986; after graduating from Harvard University with a history degree in 1943, he saw military service in Europe; in the final months of the second world war he was assigned as the geographer to work with a Hollywood photographer documenting roads, bridges and buildings; Carl Sauer, his geography professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1947-49), suggested the career of George Perkins Marsh for David's doctoral thesis in 1953 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; he then taught geography and history at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, until becoming research associate with the AGS in 1956; during the 1960s he combined this work with visiting professorships and research positions, notably with the University of the West Indies and the Institute of Race Relations, London)