An Introduction to Human Geography, 5th Edition

The fifth 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.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Worlds In The Past: Changing Scales Of Experience And Past Worlds In The Present – Edited By Denis Shaw
Chapter 1 Pre-Capitalist Worlds – Denis Shaw
Chapter 2 The Rise And Spread Of Capitalism – Terry Slater
Chapter 3 The Making Of The Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century World – Denis Shaw

Section 2 Population, Resources, Food, The Environment And Development – Edited By Michael Bradshaw
Chapter 4 Demographic Transformations – Dimitris Ballas And Danny Dorling
Chapter 5 Resources, Energy And Development – Michael Bradshaw
Chapter 6 The Environment And Environmentalism – Rachel Howell And Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 7 Food Security – Bill Pritchard
Chapter 8 Worlds Apart? The Changing Geographies Of Global Development – Marcus Power

Section 3 Society, Settlement And Culture – Edited By Tim Hall
Chapter 9 Cities: Urban Worlds – Tim Hall And Heather Barrett
Chapter 10 Urban Segregation And Social Inequality – Phil Hubbard
Chapter 11 Changing Rural Worlds – A Global View – Warwick E. Murray
Chapter 12 Social Constructions Of Nature – James Evans
Chapter 13 Geography, Culture And Global Change – Cheryl Mcewan And Shari Daya

Section 4 Production, Exchange And Consumption – Edited By Peter Daniels
Chapter 14 Geographies Of The Economy – Peter Daniels And Andrew Jones
Chapter 15 Geographies Of Food Production – Damian Maye
Chapter 16 The Geographies Of Global Production Networks – Neil M. Coe
Chapter 17 Service Economies, Spatial Divisions Of Expertise And The Second Global Shift – John R. Bryson
Chapter 18 Geographies Of Money, Finance And Crisis – Manuel B. Aalbers And Jane Pollard
Chapter 19 Consumption And Its Geographies – Ian Cook And Philip Crang

Section 5 Political Geographies: Geopolitics, Territory, States, Citizenship And Governance – Edited By James Sidaway
Chapter 20 Geopolitical Traditions – James Sidaway, Virginie Mamadouh And Chih Yuan Woon
Chapter 21 Territory, Space And Society – David Storey
Chapter 22 The Place Of The Nation-State – James Sidaway And Carl Grundy-Warr
Chapter 23 The Geographies Of Citizenship – Richard Yarwood
Chapter 24 Global Governance – Klaus Dodds And Chih Yuan Woon