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An introduction to human geography provides a comprehensive overview of the major topics within human geography, including settlements, population, resources, the economy, consumption, citizenship, culture, society, the politics of place and globalisation. Coherent and substantial chapters ensure balanced treatment across the field of human geography.
Focussing on some of the key geographical challenges facing the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this stimulating text examines the forces that shape economies and societies on what the Editors describe as our, ¿...interconnected, contradictory, complex, conflict-ridden and fantastically diverse planet.¿
All chapters are written by specialists in the field and offer original, critical and engaging perspectives.
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An introduction to human geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in geography and related disciplines in the social sciences.
Peter Daniels and Denis Shaw are at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. Mike Bradshaw is at the Department of Geography, University of Leicester. James Sidaway is at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
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Table of Contents
Spotlight and Case study matrices Contributors Guided tour Editor's acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements
Introduction
Geography: a discipline for the twenty-first century
Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James Sidaway
SECTION 1: WORLDS IN THE PAST: CHANGING SCALES OF EXPERIENCE
Edited by Dennis Shaw
Chapter 1: Pre-capitalist worlds, Denis Shaw
Chapter 2: The rise and spread of capitalism, Terry Slater
Chapter 3: The making of the twentieth-century world, Denis Shaw
SECTION 2: POPULATION, RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Edited by Michael Bradshaw
Chapter 4: Demographic transformations, Tony Champion
Chapter 5: Resources and development, Michael Bradshaw
Chapter 6: Environment and environmentalism, Andrew Millington & Jenny Pickeril
Chapter 7: Changing geographies of global food production, Brian Ilbery
Chapter 8: Worlds apart: global difference and inequality, Marcus Power
SECTION 3:SOCIETY, SETTLEMENT AND CULTURE
Edited by Denis Shaw
Chapter 9: Cities, Allan Cochrane
Chapter 10: Rural Alternatives, Ian Bowler
Chapter 11: Social inequalities and spatial excursions, Phil Hubbard
Chapter 12: Geography, culture and global change, Cheryl McEwan
SECTION 4: PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION
Edited by Peter Daniels
Chapter 13: The geography of the economy, Peter Daniels
Chapter 14: The global production system: from Fordism to post-Fordism, John Bryson & Nick Henry
Chapter 15: The global financial system: worlds of monies, Jane Pollard
Chapter 16: Consumption and its geographies, Philip Crang
SECTION 5: TERRITORY, STATES, CITIZENSHIP AND GEOPOLITICS
Edited by James Sidaway
Chapter 17: Geopolitical traditions, James Sidaway
Chapter 18: Territoriality: claiming space, David Storey
Chapter 19: The place of the nation state, Carl Grundy-Warr & James Sidaway
Chapter 20: States, citizenship and collective action, Murray Low
Conclusions, challenges and promises
Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James Sidaway
Glossary Bibliography Index