New textbook from Arnold:
Introducing Human Geographies
Edited by Paul Cloke, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol, UK;
Philip Crang, Lecturer in Geography, University College London, UK and Mark
Goodwin, Professor of Geography, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
April 1999 c.384pp c.200 b/w illus PB 0 340 69193 X £19.99 HB 0 340
61992 1 £50.00
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Below is a little more information about the book:
Introducing Human Geographies provides an innovative, comprehensive and
stimulating first-year introduction to human geography. This major new
textbook introduces some of the flavour and excitement of human geography
today, playing not only to recognisable subfields but also making accessible
some of the more contemporary developments which form the cutting edge of
the discipline.
The book is structured around three main sections. The first - Foundations -
works through a number of underlying debates that are stimulating much
contemporary innovation within human geography. The second - Themes -
provides a sub-disciplinary structured account of this innovation, outlining
its contribution to questions of development, economy, environment, history,
politics, society, and culture. The final section - Contexts - highlights
how these questions come together in work on particular 'spaces' and
'places', emphasising how much of the best contemporary work in human
geography blurs traditional sub-disciplinary distinctions.
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6 reasons why you should try this book:
35 short, digestible chapters written by leading geographers in their
respective fields
Carefully designed for 1st year undergraduates
Includes a glossary of key terms and concepts
Provides summaries of key points interspersed throughout the text
Contains an annotated guide to further reading at the end of each chapter
Superbly illustrated with over 200 line diagrams and photographs
Contents: Part I - Foundations / Society-nature / Society-space /
Local-global / Structure-agency / Self-other / Image-reality / Part II -
Themes / Section 1: Geographies of development / Development,
post-development and the global political-economy / Survival and resistance
/ Re-thinking development / Section 2: Economic geographies / Production /
Money and finance / Consumption / Section 3: Environmental geographies /
Environmental problems and management / Environmental knowledges and
environmentalism / Sustainability / Section 4: Historical Geographies /
Modernity and Modernisation / Geographical understanding and the modern
world / Memory and heritage / Section 5: Political geographies / Critical
geopolitics / Citizenship and governance / Nationalism / Section 6: Social
and cultural geographies / Place / Imaginative geographies / Landscapes /
Part III - Contexts / The body / The city / The country / Europe /
Colonialism and postcolonialism / Migrations and diasporas / Travel and
tourism / Commodities / The media / Cyberculture.
The contributors offer your students the best in human geography today
Contributors: William Adams, University of Cambridge, UK / Jacqui Burgess,
University College London, UK / Ruth Butler, University of Hull, UK / Stuart
Corbridge, University of Cambridge, UK / Mike Crang, University of Durham,
UK / Tim Cresswell, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK / Luke Desforges,
University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK / Felix Driver, Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK / Claire Dwyer, University College London, UK / Jon
Goss, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA / Pyrs Gruffudd, University of
Wales Swansea, UK / Chris Hamnett, Kings College London, UK / Ken Hillis,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA / Nuala Johnson, Queen”s
University Belfast, UK / Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia, UK /
James Kneale, University of Exeter, UK / Roger Lee, Queen Mary and Westfield
College, University of London, UK / Catherine Nash, Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK / Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK /
Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK /
Richard Phillips, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK / Sarah Radcliffe,
University of Cambridge, UK / Kevin Robins, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK / Paul Routledge, University of Glasgow, UK / Joanne P. Sharp,
University of Glasgow, UK / Susan J Smith, University of Edinburgh, UK /
Peter Taylor, University of Loughborough, UK / Adam Tickell, University of
Southampton, UK / Michael Watts, University of California at Berkeley, USA /
Sarah Whatmore, University of Bristol, UK.
Readership: 1st year undergraduate students of human geography.
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