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| Preface to the sixth edition | |
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| Tips for reading this book | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Prologue: episodes in the life and times of a sub-discipline | |
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| Welcome to political geography | |
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| Ratzel's organism: promoting a new state | |
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| Mackinder's heartland: saving an old empire and much more | |
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| Haushofer's geopolitik: saving a defeated state | |
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| Hartshorne's functionalism: creating a moribund backwater | |
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| What political geography did next | |
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| How do we move beyond the limitations inherent in political geography's history? | |
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| A world-systems approach to political geography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| World-systems analysis | |
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| Dimensions of a historical system | |
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| Power | |
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| Power and politics in the world-economy | |
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| A political geography perspective on the world-economy | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 1 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Geopolitics revived | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geopolitical codes and world orders | |
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| Situating geopolitical codes and theories | |
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| The War on Terror: geopolitical transition and world order | |
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| Feminist geopolitics and the interrogation of security | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 2 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Geography of imperialisms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A world-systems interpretation of imperialism | |
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| Formal imperialism: the creation of empires | |
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| Informal imperialism: dominance without empire | |
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| 'Empire' in the twenty-first century | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 3 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Territorial states | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The making of the world political map | |
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| The nature of the states | |
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| Territorial states under conditions of globalization | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 4 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Nation, nationalism, and citizenship | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The doctrine of nationalism | |
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| Synthesis: the power of nationalism | |
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| Nationalist uses of history: the 'modern Janus' | |
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| Nationalism in practice | |
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| State and nation since 1945 | |
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| Renegotiating the nation? | |
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| Citizenship: multiscalar politics | |
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| Citizenship in the capitalist world-economy: movement and morals | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 5 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Political geography of democracy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Where in the world is liberal democracy? | |
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| A world-systems interpretation of elections | |
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| Liberal democracy in the core | |
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| Elections beyond the core | |
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| Social movements | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 6 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Cities as localities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cities making hegemonies | |
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| Modern territorial states tame cities | |
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| Using cities to make political globalizations | |
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| Citizens and global terrorism | |
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| Challenges of the twenty-first century | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 7 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Place and identity politics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theorizing political action in places | |
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| Modernity and the politics of identity | |
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| Identity politics and the institutions of the capitalist world-economy | |
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| Place-space tensions | |
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| Key glossary terms from Chapter 8 | |
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| Suggested reading | |
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| Activities | |
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| Epilogue: a political geography framework for understanding our twenty-first century world | |
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| The key concepts of our political geography | |
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| Scale as political product and political arena | |
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| Networks and the capitalist world-economy | |
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| The temporal-spatial context of political action | |
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| 'Empire' and the opportunity to create places or spaces | |
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| Climate change: the 'ultimate' place-space tension | |
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| The final words: welcome to political geography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |