What is geography?

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What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that define the subject, What is Geography? demonstrates how and why these themes - like environment and geopolitics- are of fundamental importance. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at …

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Full title :What is geography? / Alastair Bonnett.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
Place of Publication:Los Angeles
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 158 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781849206495, 184920649X, 9781412918695, 1412918693, 9781412918688, 1412918685, 9781446213001, 1446213005
oclc:ocn489103861
LC Classification:G128
Dewey Decimal:910

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 To Know the World: Order and Power; 2 To Know the World: People and Nature; 3 Geographical Obsessions: Urbanisation and Mobility; 4 Doing Geography; 5 Institutionalising Geography; What is Geography?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Filosofische aspecten Geografi -- teori, filosofi Geografie Géographie Geography TRAVEL -- Budget TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Int… TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds TRAVEL -- Reference TRAVEL -- Road Travel TRAVEL -- Special Interest