An introduction to human geography : issues for the 21st century

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An introduction to human geography : issues for the 21st century

edited by Peter Daniels ... [et al.]

Pearson Education : Prentice Hall, 2008

3rd ed

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Human geography

:An introduction to human geography : issues for the twenty-first century

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注記

Other editors: Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw, James Sidaway

"First published 2001. Second edition 2005. Third edition 2008"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-508) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An Introduction to Human Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in geography and related disciplines in the social sciences. Comprehensively revised, the third edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography. Focusing on key geographical challenges facing the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century, stimulating coverage examines the forces that shape economies and societies, and each chapter is written by a specialist in the field.

目次

Guide to Spotlight boxes and Case studies Contributors Guided tour Introduction: Geography: a mirror to the world Section 1: Worlds in the past 1. Pre-capitalist worlds 2. The rise and spread of capitalism 3. The making of the twentieth-century world Section 2: Population, resources, food, the environment and development 4. Demographic transformations 5. Resources and development 6. Valuing the environment 7. Changing geographies of food consumption and production 8. Worlds apart: global difference and inequality Section 3: Society, settlement and culture 9. Cities: urban worlds 10. Social inequalities and spatial exclusions 11. Rural worlds 12. Social constructions of nature 13. Geography, culture and global change Section 4: Production, exchange and consumption 14. Geographies of the economy 15. The geographies of global production networks 16. Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift 17. The global financial system: worlds of monies 18. Consumption and its geographies Section 5: Political geographies: territoriality, states and geopolitics 19. Territory, space and society 20. The place of the nation-state 21. Geopolitical traditions Glossary Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB06583740
  • ISBN
    • 9780132056847
  • LCCN
    2008008555
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Harlow, England
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxiii, 517 p.
  • 大きさ
    27 cm
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