Human Geography - Softcover

Boyle, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118451503 ISBN 13: 9781118451502

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

Using the story of the “West and the world” as its backdrop, this book provides for beginning students a clear and concise introduction to Human Geography, including its key concepts, seminal thinkers and their theories, contemporary debates, and celebrated case studies.

• Introduces and applies the basic concepts of human geography in clear, concise, and engaging prose
• Explores the significance of the rise, reign, and faltering of the West from around the fifteenth century in the shaping of the key demographic, environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural processes active in the world today
• Addresses important thinkers, debates, and theories in an accessible manner with a focus on discerning the inherent Western bias in human geographical ideas
• Incorporates case studies that explore human geographies which are being made in both Western and non Western regions, including Latin America, Africa and Asia.
• Is written so as to be accessible to students and contains chapter learning objectives, checklists of key ideas, chapter essay questions, zoom in boxes, guidance for further reading and a book glossary.
• Accompanied by a website at www.wiley.com/go/boyle featuring, for students, tutorial exercises, bonus zoom in boxes, links to further learning resources and biographies of key thinkers, and for instructors, further essay questions, multiple choice exam questions, and ppt lecture slides for each chapter.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Using the story of the rise and faltering of the West as its backdrop, this book provides for beginning students a clear and concise introduction to Human Geography, including its key concepts, seminal thinkers and their theories, contemporary debates, and celebrated case studies. 

Mark Boyle, a respected academic with more than 20 years’ of experience researching and teaching the subject, explores the significance of the ascendance and degeneration of the West since the fifteenth century in the shaping of the key demographic, environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural processes active in the world today. He documents important thinkers, debates, and theories in an accessible manner, with a focus on discerning the inherent Western bias in these ideas. Also incorporated are case studies examining the ways in which geographical processes operate in non-Western societies, including those in Asia, the Middle East, and South America. 

The book is armed with array of pedagogical resources including learning objectives, essay questions, key ideas, and a glossary. A website at www.wiley.com/go/boyle (available on publication) includes chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides for instructors, alongside time-saving quizzes, questions, resources, and podcasts for students.

About the Author

Mark Boyle is Professor of Geography and Director of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analyses (NIRSA) at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He has taught introductory and advanced courses in Human Geography for more than twenty years. He has also researched and published widely in the fields of migration, diaspora and development, and spatial planning and urban and regional development.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118451503
• ISBN 13: 9781118451502
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344