Human geography is currently undergoing a rapid and far-reaching re-orientation, based on a redefined and much closer relationship with other social sciences. Aimed at a broad student readership, this book focuses on developments in social scientific theory of particular significance in rethinking human geography and on the contribution the geographical imagination can make to good social science.
PrefaceList of FiguresList of Contributors Introduction: Human Geography, Social Change and Social Science; D.Gregory, R.Martin & G.SmithPART ONE: THE CORE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHYEconomic Theory and Human Geography; R.MartinPolitical Theory and Human Geography; G.SmithSocial Theory and Human Geography; D.GregoryPART TWO: PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY The Environmental Challenge; T. Bayliss-Smith & S.OwensThe Transformation of Cultural Geography; L.McDowell Images, Myths and Alternative Geographies of the Third World; M.Bell Taking Aim at the Heart of the Region; N.ThriftUrban Geography in a Changing World; S.Smith History, Geography and the 'Still Greater Mystery' of Historical Geography; C.PhiloIndex.
