Contemporary Human Geography

Culture, Globalization, Landscape
2. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-319-05981-1
Verlag: Macmillan Learning

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 920 g

More than any other book for the introductory human geography course, Contemporary Human Geography shows what geographers actually do – how they conduct research, develop new insights, teach us about the world from a geographer’s perspective, and apply their skills in a wide range of academic and professional pursuits.

With each chapter organized by five themes (region, mobility, globalization, nature-culture, cultural landscape), Contemporary Human Geography introduces students to geography concepts through fascinating topics such as the distribution of college sports, the relationship of beauty pageants and cultural identity, texting and language modification, and more, continually reinforcing geographers’ contributions to our understanding of how we live in a globalized, modern world. The authors frame this coverage using specific learning objectives to help students focus on essential concepts and prepare for class discussions, assignments, and exams.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Domosh, Mona

Neumann, Roderick P.

Price, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Human Geography: A Cultural Approach
- Geographies of Cultural Difference: One World or Many?
- Population Geography: Shaping the Human Mosaic
- The Geography of Language: Locating the Spoken Word
- Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?
- Political Geography: A Divided World
- The Geography of Religion: Space and Places of Sacredness
- The Geography of Agriculture and Food: Shaping the Land, Feeding the World
Development Geography: Transforming Landscapes of Well-Being - Urban Geography: A World of Cities

Über Autor(innen)

Mona Domash is the Joan P. and Edward J. Foley, Jr. 1933 professor of geography at Dartmouth College. She earned her Ph.D. at Clark University. Her research has examined the links between gender ideologies and the cultural and material formation of large American cities in the nineteenth century, and the role that gender and "whiteness" played in the selling of American products overseas in the early twentieth century.

Roderick P. Neumann is a professor of geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the complex interactions of culture and nature through a specific focus on national parks and natural resources. In his research, he combines the analytical tools of cultural and political ecology with landscape studies.

Patricia L. Price is associate professor of geography at Florida International University. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Connecting the long-standing theme of humanistic scholarship in geography to more recent critical approaches best describes her ongoing intellectual project. From her initial field research in Mexico, she has extended her focus to the border between Mexico and the United States and, most recently, to south Florida as a borderland of sorts.