TY - ADVS AU - Robbins,Paul ED - Teaching Company, TI - Understanding cultural and human geography T2 - The great courses. Science & mathematics. Earth science SN - 9781629970981 AV - GF41 .R633 2014 PY - 2014///] CY - Chantilly, Virginia PB - Teaching Company KW - Human geography KW - Cultural geography N1 - "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 ER -