Oskar Spate

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Oskar Spate is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, Australian National University, Royal Holloway, University of London

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According to Wikipedia, Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate was a London-born geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in Australia and the Pacific. Early life Spate was born to a German father and an English mother in the Bloomsbury district of London, England. During the First World War, his father was interned as a German national and Spate fled to Iowa in the United States. He returned to England in 1919, where he developed an early interest in geography and history. He went on to study at St Catharine's College, Cambridge University in the 1930s. It was during this period that many of Spate's characteristic personality traits revealed themselves: he studied both English as well as Geography, thus cementing a deeply humanistic tendency that would become obvious in his future thinking. His irreverence and sense of humor was also manifest as well – he joined a Communist cell but was thrown out for his frivolity. He was later to claim that he could be 'solemn but not serious'. His doctoral dissertation was on the historical geography of London from 1801 to 1851.

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QUANTITY AND QUALITY IN GEOGRAPHY (1960) (32)
Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific (1972) (13)
Paradise found and lost (1988) (12)
From the archives: ‘South sea’ to ‘Pacific Ocean’:A note on nomenclature (1977) (11)
Australia.@@@The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy, 1938-1965.@@@Towards a Foreign Policy, 1914-1941.@@@Conscription in Australia.@@@India, Japan, Australia: Partners in Asia?@@@Architecture in Australia: A History.@@@Australian Trade Policy, 1942-1966: A Documentary History. (1969) (10)
Thirty years ago: A view of the Fijian political scene confidential report to the British colonial office, September 1959 (1990) (10)
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (1956) (9)
The New Guinea Villager: A Retrospect from 1964. By C. D. Rowley. F. W. Cheshire: Melbourne, Frederick Praeger: New York, Pall Mall Press, London, 1966. Pp. vii+ 225, sketch maps and illustrations, $A5.00, $7.50, 50s. (1967) (8)
Palaeoclimates of geographical thought (1978) (7)
Reflections on Toynbee's a study of history: A geographer's view (1953) (5)
THE “HYDRAULIC SOCIETY” (1959) (4)
On being an expert (1961) (4)
Journeyman taylor: some aspects of his work (1972) (4)
Splicing the log at Kealakekua bay: James King's Sleight‐of‐Hand (1984) (4)
Terra Australis—Cognita?∗ (1957) (3)
Under Two Laws: The Fijian Dilemma (1960) (3)
Nepal: A Physical and Cultural Geography.@@@The Forgotten Valley: Travels in Nepal. (1961) (2)
The Sulu Zone 1768–1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State . By James Francis Warren. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1981. Pp. xxvi, 390. Tables, Maps, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. (1983) (2)
The history of a history: Reflections on the ending of a pacific voyage ∗ (1988) (1)
Manuel Godinho de Eredia: Quest for Australia (1957) (1)
Burma Pamphlets. No. 1, Burma Background.@@@Burma Pamphlets. No. 2, Burma Setting.@@@Burma Pamphlets. No. 3, Buddhism in Burma.@@@Burma Pamphlets. No. 4, Burma Rice.@@@Burma Pamphlets. No. 5, The Forests of Burma.@@@Burma (1946) (0)
K. R. Howe, Where the Waves Fall. A New South Sea Islands History from the First Settlement to Colonial Rule (1985) (0)
Review articles: Finis coronat opus: Beaglehole's life of cook (1976) (0)
THEODORE DRAPER. American Communism and Soviet Russia: The Formative Period. Pp. 558. New York: Viking Press, 1960. $8.50 (1961) (0)
Maps and Man, Norman J. W. Thrower, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1972, 145 x 225 mm., vii and 184 pages, 61 diagrams and maps, 10 photographs, index. (1973) (0)
Book Review: The Russians and Australia (Russia and the South Pacific) (1990) (0)
Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences [Book Review] (1957) (0)
Westwards the course: Impressions of Portugal and Brazil (1957) (0)
Carl Sauer's fieldwork in Latin America: Robert C. West, (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979. Pp. xviii + 165. $11·50) (1981) (0)
Ian Cameron, Lost Paradise: The Exploration of the Pacific (1988) (0)
Fa‘a Auckland James W.Fox and Kenneth B.Cumberland (Editors), Western Samoa: Land, Life and Agriculture in Tropical Polynesia, Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, Christchurch, 1962, pp. 337. (1964) (0)
Asian Geography (1973) (0)
NATHAN GLAZER. The Social Basis of American Communism. (The Commu nism in American Life Series.) Pp. 244. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. $5.50 (1962) (0)
Finis coronat OPUS (1962) (0)
O Imitatores Servum Pecus M. S. Randhawa and Prem Nath, Farmers of India (Vol. I: Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jam mu and Kashmir), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, 1959, pp. 302. (1962) (0)
Australian imperialism in the Pacific. The expansionist era 1820–1920: Roger C. Thompson, (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1980. Pp. xii+289. A$25·00) (1982) (0)
Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia . By Victor R. Savage. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 456. Maps, Plates, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. (1986) (0)

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