Geographic Thought - A Critical Introduction

As a platform for thinking about geography as a cultural literacy, I recommend this title to any teacher who is considering exposing his or her students to the fundamentally different ways in which geographical thought has been Constructed. (New Zealand Geographer, 13 August 2014) On the whole, this is a very good book that will deserved by widely deployed in history and philosophy of geography courses. A quick second edition with a revised. (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 7 July 2014 This is absolutely the type of book I wish I had been given at the beginning of my own geographical education. (Cultural Geographies, 1 October 2013) Nevertheless, the author has reduced what is complex to a very readable level that will be of utility to students of geography and the history of science. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (Choice, 1 October 2013)

Tim Cresswell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Place: A Short Introduction (2004) and On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006). He has also co-edited four collections, including Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects (2011).

Preface viii 1 Introduction 1 2 Early Geographies 14 3 The Emergence of Modern Geography 35 4 Thinking About Regions 58 5 Spatial Science and the Quantitative Revolution 79 6 Humanistic Geographies 103 7 Marxist Geographies 122 8 Feminist Geographies 147 9 Postmodernism and Beyond 170 10 Toward Poststructuralist Geographies 196 11 Relational Geographies 218 12 More-than-Human Geographies 239 13 Geography's Exclusions 261 Glossary 275 Index 283