Understanding cultural and human geography /
Robbins, Paul,
Understanding cultural and human geography / Professor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison. - 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm). - The great courses. Science & mathematics. Earth science . - Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Earth science. .
"Course no. 1761"--Disc label. Course consists of 24 lectures. Each lecture approximately 30 min.
Bibliographical references included in course guidebook.
disc 1. Writing the world, the mapmaker's craft ; The problem with geographical determinism ; Anthropocene, the age of human impact ; Climate change and civilization ; Global land change ; The end of global population growth -- disc 2. The agricultural puzzle ; Disease geography ; Political ecology ; Economic geography, globalization origins ; The Columbian exchange ; Uneven development and global poverty -- disc 3. The new global economy ; Restless humanity, the migration conundrum ; Urbanization, the rise of new world cities ; Geography of language ; Understanding cultural geography ; The importance of place -- disc 4. Cultural commodification ; Culture, power, and the politics of meaning ; The geopolitical imagination ; Regionalism and the rise of new states ; Supranationalism, taking on big problems ; Future geographies.
Lecturer: Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DVD.
9781629970981 1629970980
ID1761A-01 Teaching Company PD1761A Teaching Company PB1761A Teaching Company
Human geography.
Cultural geography.
GF41 / .R633 2014
Understanding cultural and human geography / Professor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison. - 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm). - The great courses. Science & mathematics. Earth science . - Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Earth science. .
"Course no. 1761"--Disc label. Course consists of 24 lectures. Each lecture approximately 30 min.
Bibliographical references included in course guidebook.
disc 1. Writing the world, the mapmaker's craft ; The problem with geographical determinism ; Anthropocene, the age of human impact ; Climate change and civilization ; Global land change ; The end of global population growth -- disc 2. The agricultural puzzle ; Disease geography ; Political ecology ; Economic geography, globalization origins ; The Columbian exchange ; Uneven development and global poverty -- disc 3. The new global economy ; Restless humanity, the migration conundrum ; Urbanization, the rise of new world cities ; Geography of language ; Understanding cultural geography ; The importance of place -- disc 4. Cultural commodification ; Culture, power, and the politics of meaning ; The geopolitical imagination ; Regionalism and the rise of new states ; Supranationalism, taking on big problems ; Future geographies.
Lecturer: Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DVD.
9781629970981 1629970980
ID1761A-01 Teaching Company PD1761A Teaching Company PB1761A Teaching Company
Human geography.
Cultural geography.
GF41 / .R633 2014