Human Geography category: 3213 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Historical geography has been a major area of activity in recent years. Much of the recent work and research findings have been extremely valuable to historians and archaeologists and as background to the study of contemporary geography. This reissue, first published in 1987, presents an overview...
Climate Change and Human Mobility
Challenges to the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines...
by Tim Hall, Heather Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.
Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultural and social constitution of economic geographies,...
by Shannon O'Lear
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This thought-provoking and clearly argued text provides a critical geopolitical lens for understanding global environment politics. A subfield of political geography, environmental geopolitics examines how environmental themes are used to support geopolitical arguments and physical realities of power...
by Richard L. Nostrand
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview for general readers and scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. A wealth of case studies examine the significance of these components...
China's Geography
Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily misunderstood. Perhaps this is due in part to the pace of the nation’s remarkable rise and the many economic, political, and environmental problems that have accompanied its growth. Indeed, there are many...
GeoHumanities
Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies.
GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty...
The Geography of the Everyday
Toward an Understanding of the Given
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality. Now, Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual...
Urban Geography (Routledge Revivals)
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography. Drawing on examples from cities in a number of countries, including the U.S.A., David Clark outlines the contribution of geographers to the understanding of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book presents original research into contemporary geographical aspects of the study of crime. The contributors, drawn from different disciplines within the social sciences and from various countries, give a review of the subject which provides a valuable insight into the geography of crime. Their...
Historical Geographies of Anarchism
Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement. Its traditions, often hastily dismissed, are increasingly revealing insights which inspire present-day scholarship in geography. This book provides a historical geography of anarchism,...
Critical Animal Geographies
Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary...