Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 296
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4422-1229-9 • Hardback • February 2012 • $157.00 • (£121.00)
978-1-4422-1230-5 • Paperback • February 2012 • $74.00 • (£57.00)
978-1-4422-1231-2 • eBook • February 2012 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
John Agnew is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap. Luca Muscarà is associate professor of political geography at the University of Molise, Italy.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: How Political Geography is Made
Chapter 3: The Historic Canon
Chapter 4: Reinventing Political Geography
Chapter 5: The Horizon
Chapter 6: Conclusion
A compelling book which inquires into the history of the subfield and sketches the intellectual horizon of the future of political geography.
— Progress In Human Geography
This informative and well-written book carefully scrutinizes both the complex history of political geography and the contemporary challenges the field faces in a globalizing world. Offering current and versatile examples, the authors usefully problematize how politics, identities, and power relations are informed by geography and how geography is in turn informed by politics. This will be a major text for both students and researchers of political geography.
— Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland
This engaging book uses the revealing history of Political Geography to explore a broader canvas of geopolitics and politically framed geographic knowledge from the imperialist age through the Cold War to the present. Illustrated with fascinating vignettes and everyday examples, this is an ideal text with which to think through the vertiginous dilemmas of our time. If Political Geography had an app, this would be it.
— Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, Washington D.C.
Offers more flexibility than a traditional, massive core text, allowing instructors the scope to develop specific themes in directions they desire
Written by two leading political geographers, one Anglo-American, one European, for breadth of coverage
Includes a rich array of historical and contemporary maps
New features
The addition of a European coauthor broadens perspective beyond the confines of Anglo-American political geography
Offers empirical examples from the late 1990s to the present
Explores new arguments and cases from the scholarly literature of the past decade
Includes more founders of the field and links to political theory
Emphasizes the impact of World War II, particularly the role of political geographers in different countries during the war
Provides more detail on the geopolitical context of the Cold War, especially its origins and institutions, new weapons, and the intellectual-ideological context of the time
Expands the discussion of the post–Cold War period
Discusses recent examples of research in political geography, the reappearance of environmental issues, and the development of critical geopolitics