Synopses & Reviews
Human Geography: Culture, Society and Space challenges students to think geographically across scale and across a wide range of geographical phenomena and global issues. The authors engage the students throughout the text by posing geographical questions that encourage students to think critically about their own locality, region, nation, and world. In the Eighth Edition, the authors reformat the text to 14 chapters, provide a clear outline of key questions for each chapter, integrate their own field experiences, and rewrite the text to guide students through answers to geographic questions. The Eighth Edition includes three new chapters: "Identity: Race, Ethnicity and Gender," "Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes," and "Geographic Networks." The concepts of globalization, identity, development, sense of place, and construction of scale are infused throughout the text. The author team draws from studies in geography and across disciplines to bring a broad and up-to-date perspective on the kinds of research geographers have done and are currently doing on a wide range of human geography topics.
In the Eighth Edition, de Blij and Murphy welcome new coauthor Erin Hogan Fouberg (South Dakota State University), who brings her expertise in geography education and political geography. The author team created a new pedagogy and writing style for the Eighth Edition that make the book more accessible to students and faculty.
Review
‘…a writing style that is comforting and reassuring, coverage of human geography that is topical yet familiar, and contents and presentation that ease the reader into the topics…’ (
Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 May 2007)
Synopsis
Authoritatively written by a geographer who has worked on every continent, Human Geography is sensitive to people of other cultures and from all walks of life.
* Focuses on key geographic concepts and puts them in practical and current perspective.
* Key issues that readers often have strong opinions about are identified and placed in geographical perspective which may often change readers views and opinions on the issues and problems.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENT.
Introduction: Geography and Human Geography.
Cultures, Environments, and Regions.
The Earth as Humanity's Home.
PART TWO: POPULATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES.
Fundamentals of Population Geography.
Processes and Cycles of Population Change.
Migration and Its Causes.
Routes of Human Mobility.
PART THREE: THE GLOBAL LINGUISTIC MOSAIC.
A Geography of Language.
The Diffusion of Languages.
Modern Language Mosaics.
PART FOUR: THE GEOGRAPHY OF RELIGION.
The Origin and Distribution of Religions.
Religions: Location, Diffusion, and Cultural Landscape.
Religion, Culture and Conflict.
PART FIVE: LAND AND LAND USE IN THE RURAL SECTOR.
Livelihoods of Rural People.
Rural Settlement Forms.
Commercial Agriculture.
PART SIX: THE URBANIZING WORLD.
Civilization and Urbanization.
Urbanization and Location.
Urban Pattern and Structure.
Changing Cities in a Changing World.
PART SEVEN: THE GEOGRAPHY OF MODERN ECONOMIC CHANGE.
Concepts of Development.
Industrial Activity and Geographic Location.
World Industrial Regions.
Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Service Sector.
PART EIGHT: THE POLITICAL IMPRINT.
Political Culture and the Evolving State.
State Organization and National Power.
Multinationalism on the Map.
PART NINE: SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MODERN WORLD.
A Geography of Nutrition.
Spatial Patterns of Health and Disease.
Geographies of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity.
Gender and the Geography of Inequality.
PART TEN: COPING WITH A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD.
Human Alteration of the Physical Environment.
Confronting Human-Induced Global Environmental Change.
Policy Responses to Demographic Changes.
Toward a New World Order? The Changing Global Political Landscape.
Resources.
Index.