World Regions in Global Context : Peoples, Places, and Environments

by Marston, Sallie A.; Knox, Paul L.; Liverman, Diana M.; Del Casino, Vincent L; Robbins, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780132298353
• ISBN10: 013229835X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For courses in World Regional Geography. This explicitly global approach to world regional geography emphasizes global connections and the stories behind the maps and offers lively discussions of how these forces and processes play themselves out in individual places. The authors make the most current and powerful ideas in geography accessible to the introductory student. Emphasis on core regions, key cities, and distinctive landscapes accommodates a global connections approach as well as the course's traditional focus on places at the local scale.

Table of Contents

A World of Regions

The Power of Geography: A World of Regions:The Regional Approach

The Interdependence of Geographic Scales

Boundaries and Frontiers

Regionalism and Sectionalism

Places and Regions in an Interdependent World:Globalization

Globalization and Environmental Change

The Global Context: Some Important Patterns:Religion

Language

Population Distribution

Urbanization

Economic Development and Social Well-being

The Foundations of World Regions

The Changing World:The Earth System

The World-System

Geographic Expansion, Integration, and Change:The Growth of Early Empires

The Geographic Foundations of the Modern World

Organizing the Core:The Division of Labor

Standardizing Time, Space, Measure, Value, and Money

Forging National Identities and Constructing States

Controlling and Commodifying Nature

Developing Internal Infrastructures

Organizing the Periphery:Imperialism and Colonialism: Imposing New Geographies on the World

An International Division of Labor

Political and Cultural Geographies

Exploration and Exploitation

Developing Internal Infrastructures

Globalization and Economic Development:Deploying and Encountering Development

Five Key Factors of Globalization

Transnational Economic Integration

Europe

Environment and Society in Europe:Landforms and Landscapes

Climate

Environmental History

Europe in the World-System:Trade and the Age of Discovery

Industrialization and Imperialism

Eastern Europe's Interlude of State Socialism

The Peoples of Europe:The European Diaspora

Migration Within Europe

Recent Migration Streams

European Cultural Traditions

Culture and Ethnicity, Nations and States

Contemporary Challenges in a Globalizing World:Growth, Deindustrialization, and Reinvestment

The European Union

The Reintegration of Eastern Europe

Core Regions and Distinctive Landscapes:Europe's Golden Triangle

The Southern Crescent

Mediterranean Europe

Alpine Europe

Nordic Europe

The Danubian Plains

The Russian Federation, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus

Environment and Society:Climate

Physiographic Regions

Natural Landscapes

Environmental History

Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus in the World-System:Muscovy and the Russian Empire

The Soviet Empire

New Realities

The Peoples of Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus:The Russian Diaspora and Migration Streams

Nationalisms

Contemporary Challenges in a Globalizing World:Problems of Economic and Social Transformation

Gender and Inequality

Core Regions and Distinctive Landscapes:The Central Region

The Volga Region

The Urals

The Tundra

Central Siberian Taiga

The Steppes

The Central Asian Deserts

Middle East and North Africa

Environment and Society in the Middle East and North Africa:Landforms and Landscapes

Climate

Environmental History

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