An Introduction to Human Geography, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (May 23, 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 5th 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.

  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Geography: finding your way in the world
  • Section 1
  • Worlds in the past: changing scales of experience and past worlds in the present
  • 1 Pre-capitalist worlds
  • 2 The rise and spread of capitalism
  • 3 The making of the twentieth- and twentyfirst-century world
  • Section 2 Population, resources, food, the environment and development
  • 4 Demographic transformations
  • 5 Resources, energy and development
  • 6 The environment and environmentalism
  • 7 Food security
  • 8 Worlds apart? The changing geographies of global development
  • Section 3 Society, settlement and culture
  • 9 Cities: urban worlds
  • 10 Urban segregation and social inequality
  • 11 Changing rural worlds – a global view
  • 12 Social constructions of nature 2
  • 13 Geography, culture and global change
  • Section 4 Production, exchange and consumption
  • 14 Geographies of the economy
  • 15 Geographies of food production 
  • 16 The geographies of global production networks
  • 17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift
  • 18 Geographies of money, finance and crisis 
  • 19 Consumption and its geographies
  • Section 5 Political geographies: geopolitics, territory, states, citizenship and governance
  • 20 Geopolitical traditions
  • 21 Territory, space and society
  • 22 The place of the nation-state
  • 23 The geographies of citizenship
  • 24 Global governance
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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