An Introduction to Human Geography, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (May 13, 2016) © 2016

  • Peter Daniels University of Birmingham
  • Michael Bradshaw University of Leicester
  • Denis Shaw University of Birmingham
  • James Sidaway National University of Singapore
  • Tim Hall University of Winchester
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The fifth edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography, including food security and population, geopolitics and territory, inequality and power, production, consumption, the global financial system, governance and now a new chapter on citizenship. Substantial and comprehensively updated chapters ensure balanced treatment across the range of contemporary human geography.

Table of contents

Section 1 Worlds in the past: changing scales of experience and past worlds in the present

  1. 1 Pre-capitalist worlds
  2. 2 The rise and spread of capitalism
  3. 3 The making of the twentieth- and twenty first-century world

Section 2 Population, resources, food, the environment and development

  1. 4 Demographic transformations
  2. 5 Resources, energy and development
  3. 6 The environment and environmentalism
  4. 7 Food security
  5. 8 Worlds apart? The changing geographies of global development

Section 3 Society, settlement and culture

  1. 9 Cities: urban worlds
  2. 10 Urban segregation and social inequality
  3. 11 Changing rural worlds – a global view
  4. 12 Social constructions of nature 2
  5. 13 Geography, culture and global change

Section 4 Production, exchange and consumption

  1. 14 Geographies of the economy
  2. 15 Geographies of food production
  3. 16 The geographies of global production networks
  4. 17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift
  5. 18 Geographies of money, finance and crisis
  6. 19 Consumption and its geographies

Section 5 Political geographies: geopolitics, territory, states, citizenship and governance

  1. 20 Geopolitical traditions
  2. 21 Territory, space and society
  3. 22 The place of the nation-state
  4. 23 The geographies of citizenship
  5. 24 Global governance

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