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| A Companion to Economic Geography | |||
| Edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes | |||
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"Sheppard and Barnes's tour de force offers
30 essays that survey the research traditions and subfields of economic
geography since 1980. This is an instant classic, a landmark that
scholars and graduate students will return to for decades to come.
Physically and bibliographically, this presentation is state of
the art. A "must" addition to all social science collections worldwide."
A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field. Further information on this title can be found on Blackwell Publishing Website. |
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| Preface |  |
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| Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard. | |
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| Part I: | Chapter 1: Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography | |
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| About the Editors |  |
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| Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the author or editor of six previous books including Logics of Dislocation, and most recently The New Industrial Geography (with Meric Gertler). His current research is around the history of geography's quantitative revolution. | |||
| Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Capitalist Space Economy (with Trevor Barnes) and A World of Difference ( with Philip Porter), as well as numerous articles on regional political economy. | |||
| Accompanying Reader | |||
| Reading Economic Geography
Edited by Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard and Adam Tickell |
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