Human geography is currently undergoing a rapid and far-reaching re-orientation, based on a redefined and much closer relationship with other social sciences. Aimed at a broad student readership, this book focuses on developments in social scientific theory of particular significance in rethinking human geography and on the contribution the geographical imagination can make to good social science.

Preface
List of Figures
List of Contributors Introduction: Human Geography, Social Change and Social Science; D.Gregory, R.Martin & G.Smith
PART ONE: THE CORE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Economic Theory and Human Geography; R.Martin
Political Theory and Human Geography; G.Smith
Social Theory and Human Geography; D.Gregory
PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
The Environmental Challenge; T. Bayliss-Smith & S.Owens
The Transformation of Cultural Geography; L.McDowell
Images, Myths and Alternative Geographies of the Third World; M.Bell
Taking Aim at the Heart of the Region; N.Thrift
Urban Geography in a Changing World; S.Smith
History, Geography and the 'Still Greater Mystery' of Historical Geography; C.Philo
Index.