Spotlight and Case study matrices Contributors Guided tour Editor's acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements Introduction Geography: a discipline for the twenty-first century Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James Sidaway SECTION 1: WORLDS IN THE PAST: CHANGING SCALES OF EXPERIENCE "Edited by Dennis Shaw" Chapter 1: Pre-capitalist worlds, Denis Shaw Chapter 2: The rise and spread of capitalism, Terry Slater Chapter 3: The making of the twentieth-century world, Denis Shaw SECTION 2: POPULATION, RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT "Edited by Michael Bradshaw" Chapter 4: Demographic transformations, Tony Champion Chapter 5: Resources and development, Michael Bradshaw Chapter 6: Environment and environmentalism, Andrew Millington & Jenny Pickeril Chapter 7: Changing geographies of global food production, Brian Ilbery Chapter 8: Worlds apart: global difference and inequality, Marcus Power SECTION 3:SOCIETY, SETTLEMENT AND CULTURE Edited by Denis Shaw Chapter 9: Cities, Allan Cochrane Chapter 10: Rural Alternatives, Ian Bowler Chapter 11: Social inequalities and spatial excursions, Phil Hubbard Chapter 12: Geography, culture and global change, Cheryl McEwan SECTION 4: PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION Edited by Peter Daniels Chapter 13: The geography of the economy, Peter Daniels Chapter 14: The global production system: from Fordism to post-Fordism, John Bryson & Nick Henry Chapter 15: The global financial system: worlds of monies, Jane Pollard Chapter 16: Consumption and its geographies, Philip Crang SECTION 5: TERRITORY, STATES, CITIZENSHIP AND GEOPOLITICS Edited by James Sidaway Chapter 17: Geopolitical traditions, James Sidaway Chapter 18: Territoriality: claiming space, David Storey Chapter 19: The place of the nation state, Carl Grundy-Warr & James Sidaway Chapter 20: States, citizenship and collective action, Murray Low Conclusions, challenges and promises Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James Sidaway Glossary Bibliography Index