Alastair Bonnett

What Is Geography?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781538160794
• ISBN-10: 153816079X
• Artikelnr.: 67657605

Autorenporträt

Alastair Bonnett is professor of geography at Newcastle University and a travel writer. His books have been translated into nineteen languages and include Unruly Places; Beyond the Map; The Geography of Nostalgia; and An Uncommon Atlas. His most recent books are The Age of Islands, Multiracism, and How to be Original. Alastair lives in Newcastle, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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To Know the World
Order and Power
To Know the World
People and Nature
Geographical Obsessions
Urbanisation and Mobility
Doing Geography
Institutionalising Geography

Rezensionen

I cannot imagine a better guide to the transition between school and undergraduate geography than this short, informative and confidently-argued book. Written without fuss but based on solid learning and clear thinking, it tackles head-on a question many professional academic geographers would rather avoid: what is geography?
Alisdair Rogers