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9780131217669

An Introduction To Human Geography: Issues For The 21st Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780131217669

  • ISBN10:

    0131217666

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-01
  • Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

Providing a rich overview of to the major topics in human geography, this book offers a unique, engaging and relevant perspective to this ever-changing subject.Focussing on some of the key geographical challenges facing the world at the beginning of the 21st century, this new edition examines the forces that shape economies and societies.

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
Worlds In The Past: Changing Scales Of Experience
Pre-capitalist worlds
The rise and spread of capitalism
The making of the twentieth-century world
Population, Resources, Development And The Environment
Demographic transformations
Resources and development
Environment and environmentalism
Changing geographies of global food production
Worlds apart: global difference and inequality
Society, Settlement And Culture
Cities
Rural Alternatives
Social inequalities and spatial excursions
Geography, culture and global change
Production, Exchange And Consumption
The geography of the economy
The global production system: from Fordism to post-Fordism
The global financial system: worlds of monies
Consumption and its geographies
Territory, States, Citizenship And Geopolitics
Geopolitical traditions
Territoriality: claiming space
The place of the nation state
States, citizenship and collective action
Conclusions, challenges and promises
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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