Author: George W Hoffman

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George W Hoffman

George W. Hoffman was an Austrian-born American geographer and one of the leading Western specialists on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Born in Vienna in 1914, he left for the United States in 1939, served with the wartime Office of Strategic Services, and completed a doctorate in geography at the University of Michigan. He was a founding professor of the geography department at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote eight books and some 150 scholarly articles, and later directed the East European Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. His textbook on the geography of Europe, written with his wife Viola, went through several editions over three decades and is the book offered here.

Hoffman died in October 1990 in Washington, D.C. The American Association of Geographers' George and Viola Hoffman Award, for research on Eastern Europe, keeps his name alive.

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A Geography of Europe (Including Asiatic U.S.S.R.)

by George W Hoffman 16/06/2023 0

The second edition of George W. Hoffman's A Geography of Europe, including Asiatic U.S.S.R., with maps and tables. Hardcover with dust jacket, Methuen.... Read more.