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Geography 101
The following links open up Microsoft Word or
Adobe Acrobat documents that are related to the human geography topics covered
within the course. Some of these are required
reading and some are not, please refer to the syllabus for the required
readings. At least one of the readings
(Malthus in
Please let me know immediately if there are problems with any of these links.
Kennecott
Journey by William Cronon in Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s
Western Past
Guns,
Germs and Steel (excerpt) by Jared Diamond
Jihad
vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber in The Atlantic Monthly
Malthus
in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide by Jared Diamond in Collapse
Our Sprawling, Supersized Utopia by David Brooks in the New York Times
Amid
Dying Towns of Rural Plains, One Makes a Stand by Timothy Egan in the New
York Times
On a
Hunt for Ways to Put Sex in the City by John Leland in the New York Times
The
Causes of Sprawl by Robert Bruegmann in Sprawl: A Compact History
Magnificent Ruins by Brian
Fagan in The Long Summer
Time
and Chance Economist
The Trouble With Wilderness by William Cronon in Uncommon Ground
Empire
of Uniformity by Jared Diamond in Discover Magazine
Are the Desert People Winning? by Robert Sapolsky in Discover Magazine
I'm
Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell by Bernard Lewis in The Atlantic Monthly
Battleground of the Eye by
Jonathan Raban in The Atlantic Monthly
Axioms
for Reading the Landscape by Pierce Lewis in The Interpretation of Ordinary
Landscapes
The
Place of the Past in the American Landscape by David Lowenthal in
Geographies of the Mind
Unearthly
Delights by Wilbur Zelinsky in Geographies of the Mind
Space, Place and Spirit by Margaret Wertheim from the Museum Victoria Lecture Series