The Structure of Political Geography

ISBN-13: 9781138538924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 539 str.

Julian Minghi

Opis

This volume seeks to provide a sense of purpose and order to the study of political geography

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION PART 1. Heritage 1. The Ideal State, Aristotle 2. The Laws of the Spatial Growth of States, 3. Earmarks of Political Geography, 4- The Functional Approach in Political Geography, 5. A Unified Field Theory of Political Geography, 6. Studies in Political Geography, Ad Hoc Committee on Geography PART II. Structure 7. Rank and Territory, 8. Symmetry and Asymmetry as Elements of Federalism: A Theoretical Speculation, 9. The Territorial Evolution of France, IO. The City as a Center of Change: Western Europe and China, II. The Nature of Frontiers and Boundaries, 12. The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 13. Boundary Studies in Political Geography, 14. The Geographical Pivot of History, Heartland and Rimland, 16. Geostrategic and Geopolitical Regions, PART III. Process 17. The Growth of Nations: Some Recurrent Patterns of Political and Social Integration, 18. A Paradigm for the Study of Political Unification, 19. Communications and Territorial Integration in East Africa 20. Systems and the Disintegration of Empires, 2 I. The Franco-Italian Boundary in the Alpes Maritimes, 22. Independence and After, Immanuel Wallerstein 23. Building the Newest Nations, 24. Metropolitan Growth and Future Political Problems, PART IV. Behavior 25. The Noyau, Robert Ardr 26. Space, Territory, and Human Movements, 27. Two Cognitive Maps:28. On the Chinese Perception ofa World Order, 29. National Images and International Systems, 30. The West Indies Chooses a Capital, David Lowenthal 31. Toward a Geography of Urban Politics: Chicago, a Case Study, 32. Electoral Studies in Political Geography,]. R. V. Prescott 33. Impact of Negro Migration on the Electoral Geography of Flint, Michigan, 1932- 1962: A Cartographic Analysis,34. Discovering Voting Groups in the United Nations, PART V. Environment 35. The Challenge of the Environment, 36. The Hydraulic Civilizations, 37. The Impress of Effective Central Authority upon the Landscape,38. The Political Influence in Australian Geography, 39. The Conflict of Salmon Fishing Policies in the North Pacific, 40. Environmental Stress and the Municipal Political System: The Brockton Water Crisis of 1961-1966

O autorze

Minghi, Julian