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The Structure of political geography
This volume seeks to provide a sense of purpose and order to the tudy of political geography. The ditors devise a conceptual structure for the field, bringing political geography into line with trends in contemporary geography as a whole and with other social sciences. Not only do the selections contain a wide variety of contributions from other field, but the introductory essays and annotated bibliographies suggets related research. The structure of the book enjoys close parallesls in other social sciences.
The Organization of the book reflects the editors definitions and structuring of political geography. Part I. Heritage, includes works that have contributed to the theoretical development of the filed. Part II, Structure, comprises the concern to which political geographers have devoted most of the their past attention. Part III and IV, Process and behavior, form the subject where much future theoritical and practical effort is needed. Part V, Environment, provides the context in which spatial structure , proces and behavior occur.
The Structure of Political Geography includes selections from sociobiology, history, international relations, political economy, political science, social psycology, and socuology. The Classics in the field are an essential inclusion since the book would be incomplete without them. The selections in the volume, originally published in 1971, remain useful and pertinent to political geographers of diverse persuasion and to social scientists interested in geographical approaches. The fact that there is a clear focus and conceptual interdependence in political geography is the volume's greatest contribution.
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