An Introduction to Human Geography

Table of Contents:
Introduction Geography: finding your way in the world - James Sidaway, Michael Bradshaw, Peter Daniels and Denis Shaw Section 1 WORLDS IN THE PAST: CHANGING SCALES OF EXPERIENCE AND PAST WORLDS IN THE PRESENT - Edited by Denis Shaw 1 Pre-capitalist worlds - Denis Shaw 2 The rise and spread of capitalism - Terry Slater 3 The making of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century world - Denis Shaw Section 2 POPULATION, RESOURCES, FOOD, THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT - Edited by Michael Bradshaw 4 Demographic transformations - John Round 5 Resources, energy and development - Michael Bradshaw 6 The environment and environmentalism - Jenny Pickerill 7 Food security - Bill Pritchard 8 Worlds apart: global difference and inequality - Marcus Power Section 3 SOCIETY, SETTLEMENT AND CULTURE - Edited by Denis Shaw 9 Cities: urban worlds - Tim Hall and Heather Barrett 10 Social inequalities, spatial divides - Phil Hubbard 11 Rural worlds - Warwick E. Murray 12 Social constructions of nature - James Evans 13 Geography, culture and global change - Cheryl McEwan and Shari Daya Section 4 PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION - Edited by Peter Daniels 14 Geographies of the economy - Peter Daniels and Andrew Jones 15 Changing geographies of food production - Damian Maye and Brian Ilbery 16 The geographies of global production networks - Neil M. Coe 17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift -John R. Bryson 18 The global financial system: worlds of monies - Jane Pollard 19 Consumption and its geographies - Ian Cook and Philip Crang Section 5 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: GEOPOLITICS, TERRITORY, STATES AND GOVERNANCE - Edited by James Sidaway 20 Geopolitical traditions - James Sidaway and Virginie Mamadouh 21 Territory, space and society - David Storey 22 The place of the nation-state - James Sidaway and Carl Grundy-Warr 23 Global governance - Klaus Dodds and Chih Yuan Woon

Review :
"The best of what geography has to offer in one volume. A simply marvelous and well-written introduction to the flourishing field of Human Geography, written by prominent thinkers, and with a keen eye for critical debates and topical themes. Highly recommended." - Professor Henk van Houtum, Radboud University Nijmegen "Exceptional throughout" - Dr Chris Bear, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University "A comprehensive and critical textbook that really covers all the bases" - Dr Colm Breathnach, Geography Programme, University of Strathclyde "A superb introduction to Human Geography, and a book that students will also find an important resource for courses in later years.  This book has always had great strengths in economic and political geography, and the latest edition both extends its scope, and shows why human geography is a vital perspective in understanding the key issues of our times." - Professor David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London   "A lively, stimulating, interactive and colourful student-centred appraoch - the textbook of choice for undergraduate geography students" - Professor Mark Boyle, National University of Ireland, Maynooth   "It is rare to find an introductory textbook that successfully combines clearly outlined foundational concepts with critical reflection on state of the art understandings of the world around us; this new edition of An Introduction to Human Geography does exactly that. This is a persuasive and comprehensive teaching resource for students and educators alike." - Professor Anna Davies, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin