By Lesley Head
Cultural landscapes tend to be understood inside actual geography as ones remodeled by way of human motion. Advances in palaeocological reconstruction recommendations have elevated our powers to determine the earliest human affects. This stimulating new booklet makes an attempt to bridge the distance among the sciences and the arts via reviewing an important methodological and conceptual instruments that support environmental scientists comprehend cultural landscapes.
By Derek Gregory, Rex Walford
Human geography, as an issue, has turn into well known on the grounds that its connections with the social sciences have widened and deepended the learn of individuals, areas and social buildings. Horizons in Human Geography presents a transparent and obtainable cartoon map of a few of the most recent and such a lot promising advancements within the topic. The ebook starts off through assessing the function and boundaries of ideas, types and theories and proceeds to supply a broad-ranging assessment of the main social, cultural, city, local, political, monetary and environmental matters confronting geographers this day. Contents: advent; half I: past The Quantitative Revolution; half II: humans and locations, Societies and areas; half III: Explorations within the urban; IV: Landscapes of construction; half V: local Geographies and worldwide views; half VI: Politicising the surroundings. Contributors: Derek Gregory, Rex Walford, Michael J. Clark, Alan Wilson, R. J. Johnston, John Eyles, Denis Cosgrove, Linda McDowell, Roger Lee, Keith Bassett, John brief, Richard Dennis, Ian Douglas, Doreen Massey, Richard Meegan, John Harriss, Barbara Hariss, Nigel Thrift, Michael Taylor, Peter Taylor, Graham E. Smith, Stuart Cobridge, Judith Rees, Timothy O'Riordan and invoice Mead.
By Roderick P. Neumann
12 black-and-white illustrations and seven maps. Arusha nationwide Park in northern Tanzania, identified for its scenic good looks, can also be a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating research exhibits how this park embodies the entire political-ecological dilemmas dealing with safe components all through Africa. The roots of the continued fight among the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant groups move a lot deeper, in Neumann's view, than the problems of poverty, inhabitants development, and lack of knowledge often pointed out. those conflicts mirror ameliorations that return to the start of colonial rule. via enforcing a eu excellent of pristine desert, Neumann says, the institution of nationwide parks and guarded parts displaced African meanings in addition to fabric entry to the land. He makes a speciality of the symbolic value of usual landscapes between quite a few social teams during this environment and the way it pertains to conflicts among peasant groups and the country.
By Guntram Henrik Herb
On the shut of the 1st global warfare, propaganda mapping performed an important position within the construction of a consensus approximately German nationwide territory.
Under the Map of Germany presents an in depth and shiny research of the background and methods of nationalist mapping in inter-war Germany. utilizing huge archival documentation - together with many formerly undiscovered maps - the writer charts the advance of latest thoughts of nationwide territory and the institution of a good propaganda mapping community. His learn demonstrates consensus concerning the volume of the better German country was once now not created by means of skillful Nazi propagandists, yet by way of the collaborate efforts of revered students and nationalist activists throughout the Weimar Republic. tough the assumption that nationwide self-determination is a simply reason, below the Map of Germany unearths that nationwide territories will not be tangible entities that may be basically delimited, yet are synthetic constructs open to quite a lot of interpretations.
By Ellen Lust
The fourteenth variation of the center East brings vital new insurance to this finished, balanced, and fantastically researched textual content. there's extensive assurance of significant advancements equivalent to the continuing clash in Syria, carrying on with tensions among Israel and Palestine and the manifold repercussions of the Arab Spring uprisings.
By Brad Olsen
By Owain Jones, Joanne Garde-Hansen
This assortment shifts the focal point from collective reminiscence to person reminiscence, by means of incorporating new performative methods to identification, position and turning into. Drawing upon cultural geography, the e-book offers an available framework to process key features of reminiscence, remembering, documents, commemoration and forgetting in sleek societies.
By Noel Castree, Paul A. Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner, Melissa W. Wright
Commissioned to have a good time the fortieth 12 months of Antipode: an intensive magazine of Geography, this ebook evaluates the position of the severe social scientist and the way the purpose in their paintings isn't just to interpret the area yet to alter it
By W. G. Hoskins
First released in 1955, this is often an account of man's influence on his panorama, from pre-history to the toll road age, by way of the founding father of old geography as a college self-discipline. it truly is the following republished with new images and up-to-date notes to complement the unique textual content. Former professor at Oxford and Leicester, W.G. Hoskins is stated as a historian who can converse with the final reader in addition to with different historians. His prior books comprise "Provincial England", "Local background in England" and "The Age of Plunder".
By Gary Fuller
Gary Fuller’s exciting and fascinating consultant complements geographic knowledge with stable, out of date enjoyable, utilizing trivialities to open up new worlds of data for all readers. usually disregarded as unimportant, trivialities the following highlights matters which are faraway from trivial, wondering, for instance, what peaceable kingdom calls for electorate to maintain weapons of their houses? what continent comprises not less than seventy five percentage of the world’s clean water? and why arent big apple, la, Chicago, and Philadelphia the capitals in their respective states? An inveterate visitor and geographer extraordinaire, Fuller presents wide heritage, transparent illustrations, and thorough causes for every fascinating query, rigorously grounding the textual content in useful geographic ideas. either relaxing and enlightening, this e-book demanding situations today’s international new release to really get to understand their international.