Summary:
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:

· cultural geography

· development geography

· economic geography

· environmental geography

· historical geography

· political geography

· rural geography

· social geography

· 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.

• 44 short, digestible chapters.
• Highly illustrated.
• New one-column design, increasing the white space on the page and making the book look less intimidating.
• Wide coverage of topics will suit any introductory human geography course, however it's been designed.
• A range of pedaogical features - including frequent summaries, glossary definitions in the margin, and end of chapter discussion points and annotated further reading - facilitate student understanding.
• Illustrated in four colour.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1 Foundations
Culture-Nature
Society-Space
Local-Global
Control-Freedom
Self-Other
Image-Reality
Masculinity-Femininity
Science-Art
Relevant-Esoteric
Part 2 Themes
Section 1 Cultural Geographies
Imaginative Geographies
Landscapes
The Geographies of Material Culture
Section 2 Development Geographies
Theories of Development
Rethinking Development
Survival and Resistance
Section 3 Economic Geographies
Production
Money and Finance
Consumption Geographies
Section 4 Environmental Geographies
Global and Local Environmental Problems
Sustainability
Environmental Knowledges and Environmentalism
Section 5 Historical Geographies
Memory and Heritage
Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Modernity and Modernisation
Section 6 Political Geographies
Geopolitics
Citizenship and Governance
Nationalism
Section 7 Social Geographies
Identity
Identity and difference: age, dis/ability and sexuality
Exclusion
Section 8 Urban and Rural Geographies
Urban Forms
Sensing the city: urban experiences
The country
Part 3 Issues
Emotional Geographies
Place
Diasporas
Migration and Refugees
Travel and Tourism
Commodities
The media
War/Peace
Globalization and protest
Who cares?
Postscript: your human geographies

About the Author(s):
Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Philip Crang is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Mark Goodwin is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. All (eds), Envisioning Human Geographies (2004); All (eds), Introducing Human Geographies, 1st edition (1999); Cloke (and Philips), Re-presenting Rural Culture (2004); Crang is editor of the journal Cultural Geographies. All three authors have also written extensively with other publishers.

Contributors:
William M. Adams, University of Cambridge, UK Clive Barnett, The Open University, UK Jacquie Burgess, University College London, UK Paul Cloke, University of Bristol, UK Mike Crang, University of Durham, UK Philip Crang, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Tim Cresswell, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Luke Desforges, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Claire Dwyer, University College London, UK Sally Eden, University of Hull, UK David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mark Goodwin, University of Exeter, UK Jon Goss, University of Hawaii, USA Pyrs Gruffudd, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Chris Hamnett, King’s College London, UK Sarah Holloway, Loughborough University, UK Peter Jackson, Un

Readership:
1st year undergraduate Human Geography students.