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001 2009014573
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008 090406s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781606232620 (pbk.)
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020 $a9781606232637 (hardcover)
020 $a1606232630 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn299710278
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050 00 $aG116$b.W67 2009
082 00 $a910$222
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245 02 $aA world of difference :$bencountering and contesting development /$cEric Sheppard ... [et al.].
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGuilford Press,$cc2009.
300 $axix, 665 p. :$bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;$c27 cm.
505 0 $aMeasuring, 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 609-642) and index.
650 0 $aGeography.
650 0 $aEconomic development.
650 0 $aSustainable development.
700 1 $aSheppard, Eric S.