Understanding Cultural
and Human Geography
Course Guidebook
Professor Paul Robbins
University of Wisconsin–Madison
PUBLISHED BY:
THE GREAT COURSES
Corporate Headquarters
2014
Table of Contents
LECTURE GUIDES
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ...........................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE 1
Writing the World—The Mapmaker’s Craft ......................................3
LECTURE 2
The Problem with Geographical Determinism .................................10
LECTURE 3
Anthropocene—The Age of Human Impact ......................................17
LECTURE 4
Climate Change and Civilization.......................................................24
LECTURE 5
Global Land Change.........................................................................31
LECTURE 6
The End of Global Population Growth .............................................38
LECTURE 7
The Agricultural Puzzle ....................................................................45
LECTURE 8
Disease Geography ..........................................................................52
LECTURE 9
Political Ecology ...............................................................................58
LECTURE 10
Economic Geography—Globalization Origins ..................................65
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LECTURE 11
The Columbian Exchange ................................................................72
LECTURE 12
Uneven Development and Global Poverty .......................................79
LECTURE 13
The New Global Economy ................................................................86
LECTURE 14
Restless Humanity—The Migration Conundrum ..............................93
LECTURE 15
Urbanization—The Rise of New World Cities .................................100
LECTURE 16
Geography of Language .................................................................107
LECTURE 17
Understanding Cultural Geography ................................................114
LECTURE 18
The Importance of Place ................................................................121
LECTURE 19
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LECTURE 20
Culture, Power, and the Politics of Meaning ...................................135
LECTURE 21
The Geopolitical Imagination ..........................................................141
LECTURE 22
Regionalism and the Rise of New States .......................................148
LECTURE 23
Supranationalism—Taking on Big Problems ..................................155
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LECTURE 24
Future Geographies........................................................................162
Bibliography ....................................................................................168
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