Written specifically for freshman-level human geography courses, Human Geography: A Serious Introduction gives students a thorough, rigorous grounding in the subject and its historical, economic, political, cultural, and urban dimensions. The book addresses early cultures, languages, religion, the rise of capitalism, and globalization as components of human geographical systems. Human Geography also explores developed and underdeveloped societies, population, political geography, urban geography, agriculture, manufacturing, and services.
The book closes with a chapter on geography-related careers.Each chapter includes a preview of the main points, a post-reading summary, a glossary of key terms, and study questions to be used for in-class discussions or as writing assignments.Through reading Human Geography students gain a historically contextualized understanding of how the world's geographies have been formed, from hunting and gathering societies to cyberspace.
| ISBN: | 9781516529025 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2018 |
| Author: | Barney Warf |
| Publisher: | Cognella Academic Publishing an imprint of Cognella, Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 552 pages |
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Human geography |
Written specifically for freshman-level human geography courses, Human Geography: A Serious Introduction gives students a thorough, rigorous grounding in the subject and its historical, economic, political, cultural, and urban dimensions. The book addresses early cultures, languages, religion, the rise of capitalism, and globalization as components of human geographical systems.
Human Geography features in the following genres: Human geography
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Human Geography was written by Barney Warf and published by Cognella Academic Publishing an imprint of Cognella, Inc.
Human Geography has 552 pages