What Is Geography?
Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes such as environment, space, and place—as well as geography's methods and the history of the discipline—showing us how and why they are essential for a thriving planet.

Introductory but not simplified, Bonnett provides students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge. This short, elegant book will be of interest to all readers intrigued by the “geographical imagination.”

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What Is Geography?
Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes such as environment, space, and place—as well as geography's methods and the history of the discipline—showing us how and why they are essential for a thriving planet.

Introductory but not simplified, Bonnett provides students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge. This short, elegant book will be of interest to all readers intrigued by the “geographical imagination.”

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What Is Geography?

What Is Geography?

by Alastair Bonnett
What Is Geography?

What Is Geography?

by Alastair Bonnett

Overview

Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes such as environment, space, and place—as well as geography's methods and the history of the discipline—showing us how and why they are essential for a thriving planet.

Introductory but not simplified, Bonnett provides students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge. This short, elegant book will be of interest to all readers intrigued by the “geographical imagination.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538160794
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 06/23/2023
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.97(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Alastair Bonnett is professor of geography at Newcastle University and a travel writer. His books have been translated into nineteen languages and include Unruly Places; Beyond the Map; The Geography of Nostalgia; and An Uncommon Atlas. His most recent books are The Age of Islands, Multiracism, and How to be Original. Alastair lives in Newcastle, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Why What is Geography?

Chapter 2: Order and Power: To Know the World I

Introduction

Ordering the World

Modern Geography: The World of Trade and Nations

Whose Geography?

Conclusion

Chapter 3: People and Nature: To Know the World II

Introduction

Our Environment

Changes, Challenges, and Defenses

The Systems of Nature

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Urbanization and Mobility

Introduction

Presenting the City

Urban Critics

Mobilities

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Doing Geography

Introduction

To Explore

To Connect

To Map

To Engage

Geography, Children and Freedom: A Plea

Chapter 6: Institutionalizing Geography

Introduction

Specialist Institutions

Geography’s Popular Institutions

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Future Geographies

Introduction

Surviving and Thriving

Diverse Geographies

Digital and Virtual Geographies

Astrogeography: Other Worlds, New Comparisons, and New Conflicts

Conclusions: A Planet of Geographers

Postscript: What is Geography?

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

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