This textbook takes a distinctive political-economy approach to one of the major sub-disciplines of human geography. The book includes coverage of the impact of cultural studies and, less apparent in human geography, work on the theory of the state.[...]
This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today. Kevin R. Cox provides an interpretive, critical perspective on Anglo-American geographic thought in the 20th [...]