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The Spaces of Postmodernity
Michael J. Dear
Paperback - $99.95
This "Reader" recounts the story of the emergence and impact of postmodern thought in human geography. The editors have brought together in a single volume the pivotal writings of the period since 1965. Through these, and their connecting narratives, ...
Territory : A Short Introduction
David Delaney
Paperback - $60.95
This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine.
A clear and accessible introduction to the complexi ...
In the Society of Nature : A Native Ecology in Amazonia
Philippe Descola
Hardcover - $210.95
The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the chara ...
Reconstructing Nature
Peter Dickens
Paperback - $90.95
One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear picture of what is taking place. Environmental problems are real enough but they bring home the inadequacy of our knowledge. How does the natural world relat ...
American Commodities in an Age of Empire
Mona Domosh
Paperback - $69.95
"American Commodities in an Age of Empire" is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike other empir ...
The Ecological Vision : Reflections on the American Condition
Peter F. Drucker
Paperback - $65.95
Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he t ...
A Companion to Cultural Geography
James S. Duncan
Paperback - $96.95
"A Companion to Cultural Geography" brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study.
Provides accessible overviews of key themes, de ...
The City as Text : The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
James S. Duncan
Paperback - $92.95
In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. He analyzes this dialectic relationship between landscape and the pursuit of ...
Ethnicity and Development : Geographical Perspectives
Dwyer
Hardcover - $636.95
Following the collapse of international communism and the ending of the Cold War, the decade of the 1990s has seen international conflict replaced by internal, largely ethnic, conflict both of a violent and of a nonviolent nature. As a result, ethnic ...