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An Introduction to Human Geography

• An Introduction to Human Geography


• An Introduction to Human Geography


• Brief contents


• Contents in detail


• Lecturer Resources


• Contributors


• Figures


• Maps


• Tables


• Text


• Photographs (Key: b-bottom; c-centre; l-left; r-right; t-top)


• Introduction Geography: Finding Your Way in the World


• Approach of the book


• Further reading


• Research and study guides, readers and further insights into human geography


• Useful websites


• Section 1 Worlds in the Past: Changing Scales of Experience and Past Worlds in the Present


• Chapter 1 Pre-Capitalist Worlds


• Topics covered


• 1.1 Making sense of the past


• 1.2 A classification of human societies


• 1.3 Hunting and gathering


• 1.4 Human settlement and agriculture


• 1.5 Cities and civilization


• 1.6 Pre-capitalist societies


• 1.7 The heritage of the past


• Learning outcomes


• Further reading


• Useful websites


• Chapter 2 The Rise and Spread of Capitalism


• Topics covered


• 2.1 What is capitalism?


• 2.1.1 Cyclical characteristics of economic development


• 2.2 Other perspectives, other stories


• 2.2.1 Marxism


• 2.2.2 World systems theory


• 2.2.3 Eurocentrism


• 2.3 The transition from feudalism to capitalism


• 2.4 An expanding world


• 2.4.1 Colonial commerce


• 2.4.2 Colonial society


• 2.4.3 Colonial politics


• 2.5 Imperialism and racism


• 2.6 Industrialization


• 2.6.1 Proto-industrialization


• 2.6.2 Agricultural change


• 2.6.3 Factories and industrial production


• 2.7 Urbanization


• 2.8 Conclusion