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9780132056847

An Introduction to Human Geography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780132056847

  • ISBN10:

    0132056844

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-12-16
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Comprehensively#xA0; revised, the third edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography and#xA0;is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in geography and related disciplines. #xA0;Features: Full colour presentation brings out the vitality and colour of the people and places Re-enforced social, cultural and environmental coverage More criticalcoverage and greater currency with the latest controversies, debates and hot topics More on key phenomena in 21st century life - the social production of nature, global production networks, service economies and the second global shift. An#xA0; innovative website supports the text atwww.booksites.net/daniels A continued range of pedagogical features that help clarify, extend and apply understanding, including ‘Spotlight' boxes that provide deeper analysis of a key topic or concept, and#xA0;‘Thematic' case studies that illustrate a real-world theme or example #xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;

Table of Contents

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