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BL
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979962
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b734332
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Barnes, Trevor J.
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A Companion to Economic Geography.
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| Publication Statement
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Chichester :: John Wiley & Sons,, 2008.
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Blackwell Companions to Geography
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1 online resource (554 pages).
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| ISBN
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0470692723
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: 9780470692721
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| Contents
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A Companion to Economic Geography; Contents; Contributors; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography; PART I WORLDS OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; 2 Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960; 3 The Modeling Tradition; 4 The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism; 5 Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender; 6 Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography; 7 Poststructural Interventions; PART II REALMS OF PRODUCTION; 8 The Geography of Production; 9 Places of Work.
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10 Industrial Districts11 Competition in Space and between Places; 12 Urban and Regional Growth; 13 Geography and Technological Change; PART III RESOURCE WORLDS; 14 Resources; 15 Agriculture; 16 Political Ecology; 17 The Production of Nature; 18 Single Industry Resource Towns; PART IV SOCIAL WORLDS; 19 Family, Work and Consumption: Mapping the Borderlands of Economic Geography; 20 Concepts of Class in Contemporary Economic.
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A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.:.; Places economic geography in the wider context of geography.; Contributions from leading international scholars in the field.; Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field.; Explores key debates, controversies and questions using a variety of histor.
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Economic geography.
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330.9
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HF1025eb
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Sheppard, Eric.
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