World Regions in Global Context : Peoples, Places, and Environments
World Regions in Global Context : Peoples, Places, and Environments
- ISBN 13:
9780131449756
- ISBN 10:
0131449753
- Edition: 2nd
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/01/2005
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary
For courses in World Regional Geography. For courses in World Regional Geography. World Regions in Global Context employs an explicitly global approach to world regional geography that emphasizes global connections, the stories behind the maps, and presents explicit discussions of how these forces and processes play themselves out in individual places. The book makes the most current and powerful ideas in geography accessible to the introductory student. Marston, Knox, and Liverman feature an emphasis on core regions, key cities, and distinctive landscapes that allows the them to stress global connections while still maintaining the course's traditional focus on places at the local scale.