The introductory reader in human geography : contemporary debates and classic writings
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The introductory reader in human geography : contemporary debates and classic writings
Blackwell, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography.
Selections are influential in the development of the discipline or relevant to contemporary policy debates
Includes a general introduction and helpful individual section introductions
Systematically organized into eight sections: introductory readings; population and migration; environment, agriculture and society; cultural geography and place; urban geography; economic geography; development geography; and political geography
Features intelligent readings from esteemed geographers while remaining accessible for those coming to the field for the first time
Table of Contents
- Notes on the Editors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Situating Human Geography. Part I: Introductory Readings:. 1. "The Four Traditions of Geography": William D. Pattison. 2. "Geography's Perspectives": National Research Council. 3. "Geography and Foreign Policy": H.J. de Blij. 4. "Reflections of an American Geographer on the Anniversary of September 11th" : William G. Moseley. 5. From How to Lie with Maps: Mark Monmonier. 6. "Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make": Jerome E. Dobson. Part II: Population and Migration:. 7. "An Essay on the Principle of Population": Thomas Robert Malthus. 8. "Population Growth and a Sustainable Environment": Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen. 9. "Population Geography and HIV/AIDS: The Challenge of a Wholly Exceptional Disease": W.T.S. Gould and R.I. Woods. 10. "Interprovincial Migration, Population Redistribution, and Regional Development in China: 1990 and 2000 Census Comparisons": C. Cindy Fan. Part III: Environment, Agriculture and Society:. 11. "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race": Jared Diamond. 12. "The Future of Traditional Agriculture". Donald Q. Innis. 13. "Geography and the Global Environment": Diana M.Liverman. 14. "Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East": Christine Drake. 15. From Americans and Their Weather: William B. Meyer. 16. "The Trouble with Wilderness
- or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature": William Cronon. Part IV: Cultural Geography and Place:. 17. "Minnesota: Nature's Playground": David A. Lanegran. 18. "American Microbreweries and Neolocalism: 'Ale-ing' for a Sense of Place": Wes Flack. 19. "Transplanting Pilgrimage Traditions in the Americas": Carolyn V. Prorok. 20. "Kitchenspace, Fiestas, and Cultural Reproduction in Mexican House-Lot Gardens": Maria Elisa Christie. Part V: Urban Geography:. 21. "Greenville: From Back Country to Forefront": Eugene A. Kennedy. 22. "Ethnic Residential Concentrations in United States Metropolitan Areas": James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. 23. "South Africa's National Housing Subsidy Program and Apartheid's Urban Legacy": Kimberly Lanegran and David Lanegran. 24. "World-City Network: A New Metageography?": Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, and Peter J. Taylor. Part VI: Economic Geography:. 25. "Geographies of Knowledge, Practices of Globalization: Learning from the Oil Exploration and Production Industry": Gavin Bridge and Andrew Wood. 26. "The Impact of Containerization on Work on the New York-New Jersey Waterfront": Andrew Herod. 27. "Wine, Spirits and Beer: World Patterns of Consumption": David Grigg. 28. "Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn": Paul Robbins and Julie T. Sharp. 29. "Women at Work": Mona Domosh and Joni Seager. Part VII: The Geography of Development and Underdevelopment:. 30. "The Re-scaling of Uneven Development in Ghana and India": Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. 31. "Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory": A.J. Bebbington and D.H. Bebbington. 32. "Rural Development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, Neoliberalism and Environmental Risk": Julie Cupples. 33. "The Sahel of West Africa: A Place for Geographers?": Simon Batterbury. 34. "Geography, Culture and Prosperity": Andres Oppenheimer. Part VIII: Political Geography:. 34. "Revisiting the 'pivot': the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan's international relations": Nick Megoran. 35. "Euroregions in Comparative Perspective: Differential Implications for Europe's Borderlands": Joanna M.M. Kepka and Alexander B. Murphy. 36. "The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy": Don Mitchell. Index
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