An introducing human geographies / editef by Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James Sidaway

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Pearson ; New York : 2008.Edition: third editionDescription: xxiii, 517 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780132056847
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 INT 22
Contents:
Pt. I. Foundations. 1. Culture - Nature / Sarah Whatmore. 2. Society - Space / Susan J. Smith. 3. Local - Global / Philip Crang. 4. Structure - Agency / Mark Goodwin. 5. Self - Other / Paul Cloke. 6. Image - Reality / Mike Crang -- Pt. II. Themes. 7. Development, Post-Development and the Global Political Economy / Stuart Corbridge. 8. Survival and Resistance / Paul Routledge. 9. Re-thinking Development / Sarah A. Radcliffe. 10. Production / Roger Lee. 11. Money and Finance / Adam Tickell. 12. Consumption / Jon Goss. 13. Sustainability / William M. Adams. 14. Environmental Problems and Management / Andrew Jordan and Tim O'Riordan. 15. Environmental Knowledges and Environmentalism / Jacquie Burgess. 16. Modernity and Modernization / Miles Ogborn. 17. A Geohistorical Interpretation of the Modern World / Peter J. Taylor. 18. Memory and Heritage / Nuala C. Johnson. 19. Critical Geopolitics / Joanne P. Sharp. 20. Citizenship and Governance / Mark Goodwin. 21. Nationalism / Pyrs Gruffudd. 22. Imaginative Geographies / Felix Driver. 23. Landscapes / Catherine Nash. 24. Place / Tim Cresswell -- Pt. III. Contexts. 25. The Body / Ruth Butler. 26. The City / Chris Hamnett. 27. The Country / Paul Cloke. 28. Europe / Kevin Robins. 29. Colonialism and Postcolonialism / Richard Phillips. 30. Migrations and Diasporas / Claire Dwyer. 31. Travel and Tourism / Luke Desforges. 32. Commodities / Michael Watts. 33. The Media / James Kneale. 34. Cyberspace and Cyberculture / Ken Hillis -- Postscript: Your Human Geographies.
Review: "Introducing Human Geographies provides an innovative, comprehensive and stimulating first-year introduction to human geography. This major new textbook introduces some of the flavour and excitement of human geography today, playing not only to recognizable subfields but also making accessible some of the more contemporary developments which form the cutting edge of the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-360) and index.

Pt. I. Foundations. 1. Culture - Nature / Sarah Whatmore. 2. Society - Space / Susan J. Smith. 3. Local - Global / Philip Crang. 4. Structure - Agency / Mark Goodwin. 5. Self - Other / Paul Cloke. 6. Image - Reality / Mike Crang -- Pt. II. Themes. 7. Development, Post-Development and the Global Political Economy / Stuart Corbridge. 8. Survival and Resistance / Paul Routledge. 9. Re-thinking Development / Sarah A. Radcliffe. 10. Production / Roger Lee. 11. Money and Finance / Adam Tickell. 12. Consumption / Jon Goss. 13. Sustainability / William M. Adams. 14. Environmental Problems and Management / Andrew Jordan and Tim O'Riordan. 15. Environmental Knowledges and Environmentalism / Jacquie Burgess. 16. Modernity and Modernization / Miles Ogborn. 17. A Geohistorical Interpretation of the Modern World / Peter J. Taylor. 18. Memory and Heritage / Nuala C. Johnson. 19. Critical Geopolitics / Joanne P. Sharp. 20. Citizenship and Governance / Mark Goodwin. 21. Nationalism / Pyrs Gruffudd. 22. Imaginative Geographies / Felix Driver. 23. Landscapes / Catherine Nash. 24. Place / Tim Cresswell -- Pt. III. Contexts. 25. The Body / Ruth Butler. 26. The City / Chris Hamnett. 27. The Country / Paul Cloke. 28. Europe / Kevin Robins. 29. Colonialism and Postcolonialism / Richard Phillips. 30. Migrations and Diasporas / Claire Dwyer. 31. Travel and Tourism / Luke Desforges. 32. Commodities / Michael Watts. 33. The Media / James Kneale. 34. Cyberspace and Cyberculture / Ken Hillis -- Postscript: Your Human Geographies.

"Introducing Human Geographies provides an innovative, comprehensive and stimulating first-year introduction to human geography. This major new textbook introduces some of the flavour and excitement of human geography today, playing not only to recognizable subfields but also making accessible some of the more contemporary developments which form the cutting edge of the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.

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