Introducing Human Geographies, First Edition

by Mark Goodwin (Editor), PaulCloke (Editor), PhilipCrang (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  '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.
  
  
  
  This new undergraduate textbook 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-disciplinarily 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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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition. Now in full colour and with sixteen new chapters, discussion points and glossary definitions in the margin, it is even more accessible.
  
  
  
  Part one discusses the principal ideas through which human geographers understand and shape their subject.
  
  
  
  Part two examines each of the main sub-fields:
  
  A*cultural geography
  
  A*development geography
  
  A*economic geography
  
  A*environmental geography
  
  A*historical geography
  
  A*political geography
  
  A*rural geography
  
  A*social geography
  
  A*urban geography.
  
  
  
  Part three demonstrates how different thematic interests are combined in cutting-edge human geographical debates.
  
  
  
  Introducing Human Geographies continues to be the essential textbook for first year undergraduate geography students taking introductory courses in human geography.