An introduction to human geography : issues for the 21st century
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An introduction to human geography : issues for the 21st century
Pearson Education : Prentice Hall, 2008
3rd ed
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Human geography
:An introduction to human geography : issues for the twenty-first century
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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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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