A world of difference : = encounteri...
Sheppard, Eric S.

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  • A world of difference : = encountering and contesting development /
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    Title/Author: A world of difference :/ Eric Sheppard ... [et al.].
    Reminder of title: encountering and contesting development /
    other author: Sheppard, Eric S.
    Published: New York, NY :Guilford Press, : c2009.,
    Description: xix, 665 p., [2] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;27 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: Measuring, describing, and mapping difference and development -- Knowing the third world: colonial encounters -- Knowing the third world: the development decades -- The third world and neoliberal globalization -- Geographies of population: discourse and politics -- Contested environments: the entanglements of environment, development, and globalization -- Disease and health -- Uncertain rains: the atmospheric energy cycle and the hydrologic cycle -- Other challenges to rural livelihood: soils, vegetation, and pests -- Nature as latitudinal trickster: the carbon cycle and plant growth -- The management of tropical and subtropical ecosystems: the Pokot of West Central Kenya-an indigenous knowledge system -- The historical geography of colonialism and the slave trade -- Colonialism as spatial and labor control system -- The end of colonialism and the promise of free trade -- Trading primary commodities -- Peripheral industrialization: paths and strategies -- The earth's crust as resource -- Urbanization, migration, and spatial polarization -- Transnational production -- Foreign branch plants and economic growth -- Money and global finance markets / with Bongman Seo -- Borrowing money: aid, debt, and dependence / with Bongman Seo -- Toward different worlds.
    Subject: Geography. -
    ISBN: 9781606232620 (pbk.)
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