GEOGRAPHICAL WORLDS by Massey, Doreen ISBN 0198741855
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[edit] GEOGRAPHICAL WORLDS
This introduction to human geography provides a global perspective, showing how different societies are constructed through a web of economic, political and social connections that help to shape them.
This is an introductory text to human geography with a difference. It begins with the idea that the way in which we see the world is a matter of interpretation: it depends upon who you are - a Third World peasant or a resident of Los Angeles, for example. Cultural representations of the globe, both historical and contemporary, figure prominently. This line of thinking is developed by showing how different places, different parts of the globe, are constructed through a web of economic, political, and social connections that shape and reshape them. From this focus on place, the book moves back to the global level and the question of space. Starting with the connections already established, it show how the same connections have drawn together the distant corners of the globe, but not in a one-world view: global processes are uneven and unequal in character. This is the introductory volume of a five-book series which offers a comprehensive, broad-based course in human geography. The building blocks of a 'geographical imagination' are presented through some of the principal forces that are shaping the world as it approaches the twenty-first century. Each book develops different aspects of the geographical imagination, using a mixture of text and readings. The issues that are explored are at the forefront of global and economic change. In tracing the impact of shifts in cultural and political geography, they are used to teach what it is to think geographically.
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[edit] Title
GEOGRAPHICAL WORLDS
[edit] Author
Massey, Doreen
[edit] ISBN
0198741855
[edit] Published
30/04/1995
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
18.99 (GBP)
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