Understanding cultural and human geography / Professor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID1761A-01 | Teaching CompanyPD1761A | Teaching CompanyPB1761A | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Earth science.Publisher: Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Company, [2014]Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781629970981
  • 1629970980
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GF41 .R633 2014
Contents:
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.
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DVD.

"Course no. 1761"--Disc label.

Course consists of 24 lectures.

Each lecture approximately 30 min.

Lecturer: Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.

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