Human Geography category: 3213 books
Civic Discipline
Geography in America, 1860-1890
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The American Geographical Society was the pre-eminent geographical society in the nineteenth-century U.S. This book explores how geographical knowledge and practices took shape as a civic enterprise, under the leadership of Charles P. Daly, AGS president for 35 years (1864-1899). The ideals and programmatic...
Geography Meets Gendlin
An Exploration of Disciplinary Potential through Artistic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography’s resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlin’s philosophical and methodological work to stimulate geographical...
Anarchy and Geography
Reclus and Kropotkin in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book provides a historical account of anarchist geographies in the UK and the implications for current practice. It looks at the works of Frenchman Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) and Russian Pyotr Kropotkin (1842–1921) which were cultivated during their exile in Britain and Ireland.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Land settlement schemes, sponsored by national governments and businesses, such as the Ford Corporation and the Hudson’s Bay Company, took place in locations as diverse as the Canadian Prairies, the Dutch polders, and the Amazonian rainforests. This novel contribution evaluates a diverse range of...
Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement
Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded...
Urban Animals
Crowding in zoocities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subjected to complaints; they transgress geographical, legal as and cultural ordering systems, while roaming the city in what is often perceived as uncontrolled ways. But they are also...
Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jared Diamond’s book.
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by Chris Philo, Chris Wilbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans...
Showing Off
The Geltung Hypothesis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Hardly a place exists on earth that has not been shaped in some way by human beings. Every day we modify and even sweep away natural landscapes as we build places to live and work. But why we react and interact as social beings intent on exercising ecological dominance poses an endlessly compelling...
by Peter French
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The coast cannot be left to nature to determine its fate. Wealth, property, economic interests, recreation, tourism and wildlife are all threatened. Coasts are an administrative battle ground and one of the most important and widely examined topics in environmental management.
Coastal and Estuarine...
by Ying Long, Zhenjiang Shen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book describes a comprehensive framework of novel simulation approaches, conventional urban models, and related data mining techniques that will help develop planning support systems in Beijing as well as other mega-metropolitan areas. It investigates the relationships between human behaviors...
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene
Re-conceptualising human–nature relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the scale...
North American Odyssey
Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. Part I explores the settling...
by Greg Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The very survival of the planet is at risk: human misuse of natural resources and disturbance of natural environmental systems is pushing the Earth to the limits of its capacity.
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions,...