Introduction Geography: finding your way in the world - James Sidaway, Michael Bradshaw, Peter Daniels and Denis Shaw Section 1 WORLDS IN THE PAST: CHANGING SCALES OF EXPERIENCE AND PAST WORLDS IN THE PRESENT - Edited by Denis Shaw 1 Pre-capitalist worlds - Denis Shaw 2 The rise and spread of capitalism - Terry Slater 3 The making of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century world - Denis Shaw Section 2 POPULATION, RESOURCES, FOOD, THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT - Edited by Michael Bradshaw 4 Demographic transformations - John Round 5 Resources, energy and development - Michael Bradshaw 6 The environment and environmentalism - Jenny Pickerill 7 Food security - Bill Pritchard 8 Worlds apart: global difference and inequality - Marcus Power Section 3 SOCIETY, SETTLEMENT AND CULTURE - Edited by Denis Shaw 9 Cities: urban worlds - Tim Hall and Heather Barrett 10 Social inequalities, spatial divides - Phil Hubbard 11 Rural worlds - Warwick E. Murray 12 Social constructions of nature - James Evans 13 Geography, culture and global change - Cheryl McEwan and Shari Daya Section 4 PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION - Edited by Peter Daniels 14 Geographies of the economy - Peter Daniels and Andrew Jones 15 Changing geographies of food production - Damian Maye and Brian Ilbery 16 The geographies of global production networks - Neil M. Coe 17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift -John R. Bryson 18 The global financial system: worlds of monies - Jane Pollard 19 Consumption and its geographies - Ian Cook and Philip Crang Section 5 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: GEOPOLITICS, TERRITORY, STATES AND GOVERNANCE - Edited by James Sidaway 20 Geopolitical traditions - James Sidaway and Virginie Mamadouh 21 Territory, space and society - David Storey 22 The place of the nation-state - James Sidaway and Carl Grundy-Warr 23 Global governance - Klaus Dodds and Chih Yuan Woon

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