A book that will delight students... Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject's landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation... The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through... It will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts.
- THE Textbook Guide
"Will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals."
- Professor James Sidaway, University of Plymouth
'An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core." - Barney Warf, Florida State University
Undergraduate geography students are often directed to 'key' texts in the literature but find them difficult to read because of their language and argument. As a result, they fail to get to grips with the subject matter and gravitate towards course textbooks instead.
Key Texts in Human Geography serves as a primer and companion to the key texts in human geography published over the past 40 years. It is not a reader, but a volume of 26 interpretive essays highlighting:
the significance of the text
how the book should be read
reactions and controversies surrounding the book
the book's long-term legacy.
It is an essential reference guide for all students of human geography and provides an invaluable interpretive tool in answering questions about human geography and what constitutes geographical knowledge.
Torsten Hagerstrand 'Innovation Diffusion as Spatial Process' (1953) - Bo Lenntrop
William Bunge 'Theoretical Geography' (1962) - Michael F. Goodchild
Peter Haggett 'Locational Analysis in Human Geography' (1965) - Martin Charlton
David Harvey 'Explanation in Geography' (1969) - Ron Johnston
Kevin Cox 'Conflict, Power and Politics in the City' (1973) - Andy Wood
Edward Relph 'Place and Placelessness' (1976) - David Seamon and Jacob Sowers
Yi-Fu Tuan 'Space and Place' (1977) - Tim Cresswell
David Harvey 'The Limits to Capital' (1982) - Noel Castree
Neil Smith 'Uneven Development' (1984) - Martin Phillips
Doreen Massey 'Spatial Divisions of Labour' (1984) - Nick Phelps
Women in Geography Study Group 'Geography and Gender' (1984) - Susan Hanson
Denis Cosgrove 'Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape' (1984) - David Gilbert
Stuart Corbridge 'Capitalist World Development' (1986) - Satish Kumar
Peter Dicken 'Global Shift' (1986) - Jonathan Beaverstock
David Harvey 'The Condition of Postmodernity' (1989) - Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III
Edward Soja 'Postmodern Geographies' (1989) - Claudio Minca
Michael Storper and Richard Walker 'The Capitalist Imperative' (1989) - Neil Coe
David Livingstone 'The Geographic Tradition' (1992) - Nick Spedding
Gillian Rose 'Feminism and Geography' (1992) - Robyn Longhurst
Derek Gregory 'Geographical Imaginations' (1995) - John Pickles
David Sibley 'Geographies of Exclusion' (1995) - Phil Hubbard
Gearoid O'Tuathail 'Critical Geopolitics' (1996) - Jo Sharp
Trevor Barnes 'Logics of Dislocation' (1996) - Philip Kelly
Sarah Whatmore 'Hybrid Geographies' (2002) - Sarah Dyer
Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 'Cities' (2002) - Alan Latham
Doreen Massey 'For Space' (2005) - Ben Anderson
