Alastair Bonnett

What Is Geography?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introductory but not simplified, What Is Geography? provides students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge. Designed as a key text for beginning students, this book will be of interest to all readers interested in and intrigued by the "geographical imagination."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781538160787
• ISBN-10: 1538160781
• Artikelnr.: 67655922

Autorenporträt

By Alastair Bonnett

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Why What is Geography?
Chapter 2: Order and Power: To Know the World I
Introduction
Ordering the World
Modern Geography: The World of Trade and Nations
Whose Geography?
Conclusion
Chapter 3: People and Nature: To Know the World II
Introduction
Our Environment
Changes, Challenges, and Defenses
The Systems of Nature
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Urbanization and Mobility
Introduction
Presenting the City
Urban Critics
Mobilities
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Doing Geography
Introduction
To Explore
To Connect
To Map
To Engage
Geography, Children and Freedom: A Plea
Chapter 6: Institutionalizing Geography
Introduction
Specialist Institutions
Geography's Popular Institutions
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Future Geographies
Introduction
Surviving and Thriving
Diverse Geographies
Digital and Virtual Geographies
Astrogeography: Other Worlds, New Comparisons, and New Conflicts
Conclusions: A Planet of Geographers
Postscript: What is Geography?
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

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To Know the World
Order and Power
To Know the World
People and Nature
Geographical Obsessions
Urbanisation and Mobility
Doing Geography
Institutionalising Geography

Rezensionen

I cannot imagine a better guide to the transition between school and undergraduate geography than this short, informative and confidently-argued book. Written without fuss but based on solid learning and clear thinking, it tackles head-on a question many professional academic geographers would rather avoid: what is geography?
Alisdair Rogers