Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Human Geography

• The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia.
  
• The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.
  
• Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.
  
• Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as...

• A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term -territory-.
  
• Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field.
  
• Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of...

• The contributors are all experts in the field of international development.
  
• Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aid plays in catalysing, or stifling, development.
  
• Represents a wide range of different analytical perspectives.

• Considers the ways in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core anthropological questions.
• Contributors explore a wide range of themes, such as our understanding of those processes which transform the environment, and the evolution of the cultural mind.
• Addresses anthropological issues of general interest, from biology to...

• Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points
• Charts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the field
• A valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied...

"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core."
--Barney Warf, Florida State University

"Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the...

"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core."
--Barney Warf, Florida State University

"Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the...

Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in social organization, politics, economics, and art. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining...