Geographic Thought

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).

“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)

• Preface viii1 Introduction 12 Early Geographies 143 The Emergence of Modern Geography 354 Thinking About Regions 585 Spatial Science and the Quantitative Revolution 796 Humanistic Geographies 1037 Marxist Geographies 1228 Feminist Geographies 1479 Postmodernism and Beyond 17010 Toward Poststructuralist Geographies 19611 Relational Geographies 21812 More-than-Human Geographies 23913 Geography's Exclusions 261Glossary 275Index 283