Understanding cultural and human geography [DVD]

Available

Understanding cultural and human geography

(2014)

Nonfiction

DVD

Series:

Great courses (DVD)

Call Numbers:

DVD/304.23/UNDERSTANDING

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Nonfiction DVDs	DVD/304.23/UNDERSTANDING	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

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)

ISBN/ISSN

9781629970981 ID1761A-01, 1629970980 PD1761A, PB1761A

LANGUAGE

English

SERIES

Great courses (DVD)

NOTES

"Course no. 1761"--Disc label

Course consists of 24 lectures

Each lecture approximately 30 min

Lecturer: Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison

DVD

disc 1.

Writing the world, the mapmaker's craft ; Problem with geographical determinism ; Anthropocene, the age of human impact ; Climate change and civilization ; Global land change ; End of global population growth --

disc 2.

Agricultural puzzle ; Disease geography ; Political ecology ; Economic geography, globalization origins ; Columbian exchange ; Uneven development and global poverty --

disc 3.

New global economy ; Restless humanity, the migration conundrum ; Urbanization, the rise of new world cities ; Geography of language ; Understanding cultural geography ; Importance of place --

disc 4.

Cultural commodification ; Culture, power, and the politics of meaning ; Geopolitical imagination ; Regionalism and the rise of new states ; Supranationalism, taking on big problems ; Future geographies