Guide to Spotlight boxes and Case studies

Contributors

Guided tour

Introduction: Geography: a mirror to the world

Section 1: Worlds in the past

1. Pre-capitalist worlds

2. The rise and spread of capitalism

3. The making of the twentieth-century world

Section 2: Population, resources, food, the environment and development

4. Demographic transformations

5. Resources and development

6. Valuing the environment 

7. Changing geographies of food consumption and production

8. Worlds apart: global difference and inequality

Section 3: Society, settlement and culture

9. Cities: urban worlds

10. Social inequalities and spatial exclusions

11. Rural worlds

12. Social constructions of nature

13. Geography, culture and global change

Section 4: Production, exchange and consumption

14. Geographies of the economy

15. The geographies of global production networks

16. Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift

17. The global financial system: worlds of monies

18. Consumption and its geographies

Section 5: Political geographies: territoriality, states and geopolitics

19. Territory, space and society

20. The place of the nation-state

21. Geopolitical traditions

Glossary

Bibliography

Index