The Introductory Reader in Human Geography Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings

by Moseley, William G.; Lanegran, David A.; Pandit, Kavita

• ISBN13: 9781405149211
• ISBN10: 1405149213
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This reader is a lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography. Featuring a dynamic collection of material, the volume is designed to foster a clear understanding of human geography and its concepts, debates and controversies. The topics selected are accessible to introductory students, yet enduring in their insights, influential in the development of the discipline, or relevant to contemporary policy debates. The book includes sections on population and migration; environment, agriculture, and society; cultural geography and place; urban and economic geography; development geography; and political geography. Each chapter contains an introduction by the editors followed by several essays addressing these specific themes. This engaging and thought-provoking resource is an ideal supplement to any introductory human geography textbook. It can also be used very effectively on its own as an introduction for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.

Author Biography

William G. Moseley is Associate Professor of Geography at Macalester College.

David A. Lanegran is Professor of Geography at Macalester College.

Kavita Pandit is Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Editors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Situating Human Geography

Introductory Readings

"The Four Traditions of Geography ":

"Geography 's Perspectives ": National Research Council

"Geography and Foreign Policy ":

"Reflections of an American Geographer on the Anniversary of September 11th "

From How to Lie with Maps:

"Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make ":

Population and Migration

"An Essay on the Principle of Population ":

"Population Growth and a Sustainable Environment ":

"Population Geography and HIV/AIDS: The Challenge of a Wholly Exceptional Disease ":

"Interprovincial Migration, Population Redistribution, and Regional Development in China: 1990 and 2000 Census Comparisons ":

Environment, Agriculture and Society

"The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race ":

"The Future of Traditional Agriculture ".

"Geography and the Global Environment ":

"Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East ":

From Americans and Their Weather:

"The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature ":

Cultural Geography and Place

"Minnesota: Nature 's Playground ":

"American Microbreweries and Neolocalism: 'Ale-ing ' for a Sense of Place ":

"Transplanting Pilgrimage Traditions in the Americas ":

"Kitchenspace, Fiestas, and Cultural Reproduction in Mexican House-Lot Gardens "

Urban Geography

"Greenville: From Back Country to Forefront "

"Ethnic Residential Concentrations in United States Metropolitan Areas ":

"South Africa 's National Housing Subsidy Program and Apartheid 's Urban Legacy ":

"World-City Network: A New Metageography? ":

Economic Geography

"Geographies of Knowledge, Practices of Globalization Learning from the Oil Exploration and Production Industry ":

"The Impact of Containerization on Work on the New York -New Jersey Waterfront "

"Wine, Spirits and Beer: World Patterns of Consumption "

"Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn "

"Women at Work "

The Geography of Development and Underdevelopment

"The Re-scaling of Uneven Development in Ghana and India "

"Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory ":

"Rural Development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, Neoliberalism and Environmental Risk ":

"The Sahel of West Africa: A Place for Geographers? "

"Geography, Culture and Prosperity "

Political Geography

"Revisiting the 'pivot ': the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan 's international relations ":

"Euroregions in Comparative Perspective: Differential Implications for Europe 's Borderlands ":

"The End of Public Space? People 's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy ":

Index

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