Introducing human geography from a unique global perspective, this concise but comprehensive work provides readers with a basis for understanding the human world as it is today and as it has evolved through the centuries. Exploring the long history of human geography, from pre-classical maps to today's technical advances, and stressing its links with other academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and physical sciences, the book offers a new organizational framework exploring all of human geography in a logical sequence, and introducing all relevant methodologies, including environmental determinism and possibi8lism, positivism, humanism, and Marxism. The author presents human geography as a pragmatic, wide-ranging discipline, grounded in space and place, with a strong explanatory power for major cultural and economic issues, continually evolving in response to the changing needs of society. Offering readers a firm foundation in theory, Human Geography also provides a wealth of provocative case studies chosen to illustrate philosophical and conceptual ideas, and to impart basic geographical knowledge. Accessible and comprehensive, it is essential reading for anyone who needs to understand the world we live in, and how we live in the world. _

Human Geography

Politics & Social Sciences

Norton, William

Sociology

Oxford University Press

The second edition of this introduction to the diverse field of human geography includes a fascinating account of the development of this discipline, and elaborates on its close tcpks to other areas of research. The emphasis on the aspects and basic principles of human geography, as well as the strong conceptual content and the eclectic focus of the book provide for an accessible and informative reading. Along with the revised empirical data, a number of substantial improvements have been made to the new edition. The discussion of environmental issues is more closely linked to the rest of the text and the accounts of cultural and social geography are expanded. An extensive glossary, list of suggested readings, new color maps and tables greatly enhance the clarity of Human Geography.

Social Sciences

Cultural geography describes and explains the visible material landscapes that different groups of people have fashioned from the physical geographic environment they occupy. There is long-standing interest in culture as a casual mechanism (especially the geographic expression of culture in landscape) and a more recent concern with cultural politics (especially the social and spatial constitution of culture). Cultural geography incorporates both traditional and newer conceptual bases and is closely rlated to other areas of geographic interest (especially social, economic, political, and physical geography), to other academic disciplines (especially history, anthropology, psychology, and sociology), and to such interdisciplinary concerns as women's studies and ethnic studies. Cultural Geography's first chapter introduces the ideas that have informed the work of cultural geographers, followed by six thematic chapters, each focusing on a particular cultural geographic theme. In each chapter, conceptual material explains the rationale for the theme and empirical material provides examples of analyses conducted by making some observations on the current and possible future status of cultural geograhy. Boxes, figures, tables, and photographs agument the text and facilitate readers' comprehension.

Cultural Geography: Themes, Concepts, Analyses

History

Now in its third edition, Human Geography has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the recent changes in scholarship in human geography. The book explores all aspects of human geography and introduces students to the relevant methodologies within the discipline. It explains how human geography has a strong explanatory power for major cultural and economic issues, and reveals its human impact on the surrounding environment. No one methodology dominates this book. Human geography is presented as a wide-ranging discipline, which focuses on the concepts of space and place, with interest in cultural and economic issues. By acknowledging that human geography is closely linked to other disciplines -- social sciences, humanities, and physical science -- this text helps to ensure that human geographic learning is applied to other academic contexts. It also emphasizes disciplinary history in order to give students an appreciation of the longevity of human geography. This new edition features substantial revisions, updates, and additions, including new text, boxes, figures, tables, maps, and color photographs. There is also new factual information relating to population (chapter 5 and 6) and political matter (chapter 9). The front and back covers of the text feature world maps of political boundaries and world relief and drainage, providing useful references for students. Human Geography introduces the diverse scope of human geography, its fascinating history, and its close links with other disciplines. It explains why human geographers do what they do and encourages students to explore this eclectic and exciting discipline.

Business & Money

Economics

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The discipline of human geography encompasses an extraordinarily broad range of subject matter, from biology to philosophy, demography to politics, sociology to cultural studies, economics to environmental issues. The fourth edition of Human Geography by William Norton is no less wide-ranging. It offers a balanced introduction not only to concepts and methodologies but to the history of the discipline, emphasizing how human geography evolved--and continues to develop--in response to changing human needs, as well as its links with other disciplines. Generously and beautifully illustrated with maps, figures, tables, and photographs, this edition includes the most recent statistical information available and has been extensively revised to reflect recent developments, most notably the ongoing economic and cultural changes associated with the process of globalization.

Featuring a completely new design, the fifth edition of Human Geography has been significantly revised and updated around the phenomenon of globalization. The book starts out by defining globalization a metaconcept-a concept that helps frame our understanding of essential geographical concepts such as space, location, place, region, distance, scale, diffusion, perception, development, and discourse. All chapters have been re-written to emphasize the importance of globalization in political geography, cultural geography, economic geography and other types of geographic study. In addition, more than 100 new photographs accompany the concepts in the text.

Cultural Geography, Second Edition, explores how cultural identities express themselves in the landscape. William Norton examines everything from Mormon temples to shopping malls, from war monuments to roadside memorials, from segregated beaches to gay pride parades. Landscapes emerge as sites of contestation and consumption, of oppression and exclusion, of sacred importance and ethnic pride, Cultural Geography reveals how people relate to place on a local, regional, and global scale. While covering the longstanding interests in ecology, landscape change, and cultural regions, which developed under the influence of Carl Sauer, the second edition of Cultural Geography also focuses on contemporary movements in the field. The 'new' cultural geography--informed by Marxist, feminist, humanist, and postmodernist concerns--challenges traditional ideas about humans and nature. Integrating physical and social science, Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, and Inequalities, Second Edition, provides thoughtful and balanced coverage of this discipline in all its aspects, past and present.

Cultural Geography

The fifth edition of "Human Geography" is a significant revision from the previous edition in that it integrates a discussion of globalisation throughout the text and explicitly labels the term a metaconcept; a concept that helps to frame our understanding of essential geographical concepts such as space, location, place, region, distance, scale, diffusion, perception, development and discourse. Chapters have been rewritten to emphasise the importance of globalisation for many areas of geographic study, including political geography, cultural geography and economic geography. The pedagogical impact of photographs has been emphasised through a new photgraph program that links images to principles and discussions in the text. The design of the entire book has been refreshed.

In response to the changing facts of human geography and to changing understandings of those facts, this edition is changed from the fifth edition in three substantive ways. First, there is much new content, most notably the addition of two more chapters on aspects of urban geography. Second, there is an increased emphasis on providing information for students in easily readable ways, especially though the addition of 53 new Figures, 26 new Tables, 35 new Boxes, and 45 new Glossary items. Third, much of the detailed factual content in this sixth edition is new.

Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, Inequalities explores the relationship between people and the places they live in by analyzing cultural identities and cultural landscapes on both local and global scales. The new edition of Cultural Geography introduces co-author Margaret Walton-Roberts, whose familiarity with contemporary practices in the discipline ensures a good balance between traditional and modern approaches to cultural geography. Ultimately, these approaches demonstrate cultural geography's relation to other areas of geographic interest and the impact it has on them, particularly social, economic, political, environmental, and physical geography. The text has been revised and updated, with enhanced discussion of identity and power, socio-spatial relationships, hybridity and nature, feminism, and Marxism, making it more appropriate for today's student. Boxed features, questions for critical thought, and suggested further readings enhance student engagement and study.

Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, Inequalities, third edition

Walton-Roberts, Margaret

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Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, Inequalities, third edition