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Beschreibung
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."
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."
Über den Autor
Alastair Bonnett
Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781538160794
ISBN-10: 153816079X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bonnett, Alastair
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit: Alastair Bonnett
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,242 kg
Artikel-ID: 126737550