William Gordon East (also W. G. East; 19 November 1902 – 27 January 1998) was an English
geographer
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...
and writer. He studied at
Cambridge University
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. He taught at the
London School of Economics and Political Science
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.
[East, W. G. (1935) ''An Historical Geography of Europe''. London: Methuen; p. ix]
His work includes the following books:
* ''The Union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859: An Episode in Diplomatic History''
* ''The Geography behind History''
* ''The Changing Map of Asia: A Political Geography''
* ''An Historical Geography of Europe''; 1st to 4th eds. Methuen, 1935, 1943, 1948, 1950
* ''The Soviet Union''
* ''Our Fragmented World: An Introduction to Political Geography''
* ''The Spirit and Purpose of Geography''
For his essay on ''The Union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859: An Episode in Diplomatic History'', he was awarded the
Thirlwall Prize
Since 1884, the Thirlwall Prize was instituted at Cambridge University in the memory of Bishop Connop Thirlwall, and has been awarded during odd-numbered years, for the best essay about British history or literature for a subject with original rese ...
for 1927.
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1902 births
1998 deaths
English geographers
English non-fiction writers
English male non-fiction writers
Historical geographers
Political geographers
20th-century English male writers