RICHARD MUIR is Senior Lecturer in Geography, University College of Ripon and York St. John, and author of Modern Political Geogrpahy and (with Ronan Paddison), Geography, Politics and Behaviour, as well as numerous books on geography, landscape and rural Britain.

• Preface IntroductionThe Politics of Territory and Place Society and Space, Nation and State The Growth of the StateThe Modern StateThe State from Within The International Dimension Geography, the State and the Third WorldGeopolitics, Globalisation and World SystemsPolitics of the EnvironmentConclusion.

RICHARD MUIR is Senior Lecturer in Geography, University College of Ripon and York St. John, and author of Modern Political Geogrpahy and (with Ronan Paddison), Geography, Politics and Behaviour, as well as numerous books on geography, landscape and rural Britain.

• Preface IntroductionThe Politics of Territory and Place Society and Space, Nation and State The Growth of the StateThe Modern StateThe State from Within The International Dimension Geography, the State and the Third WorldGeopolitics, Globalisation and World SystemsPolitics of the EnvironmentConclusion.