Peter Daniels and Denis Shaw are at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.Mike Bradshaw is at the Warwick Business School.Tim Hall is at the Department of Applied Social Studies, University of WinchesterJames Sidaway is at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

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• Section 1 Worlds in the past: changing scales of experience and past worlds in the present 1 Pre-capitalist worlds2 The rise and spread of capitalism3 The making of the twentieth- and twenty first-century worldSection 2 Population, resources, food, the environment and development 4 Demographic transformations5 Resources, energy and development6 The environment and environmentalism7 Food security8 Worlds apart? The changing geographies of global developmentSection 3 Society, settlement and culture 9 Cities: urban worlds10 Urban segregation and social inequality11 Changing rural worlds – a global view12 Social constructions of nature 213 Geography, culture and global changeSection 4 Production, exchange and consumption 14 Geographies of the economy15 Geographies of food production 16 The geographies of global production networks17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift18 Geographies of money, finance and crisis 19 Consumption and its geographiesSection 5 Political geographies: geopolitics, territory, states, citizenship and governance 20 Geopolitical traditions21 Territory, space and society22 The place of the nation-state23 The geographies of citizenship24 Global governance