This volume provides students of human geography with a useful resource, a collection of writings critical to understanding the field as a whole, which reveal the interactions of its component parts. It has been designed to give students access to the articles they will need for their studies.

It amply demonstrates why human geography is a subject worthy of the student's engagement and provides a vital and rewarding resource for its understanding.

Acknowledgements.
General Introduction.
Part I: Recounting Geography's History:
Introduction.
1. A Plea for the History of Geography: John K. Wright.
2. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? R. J. Johnston.
3. Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography: Anne Buttimer.
4. Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change: Horacio Capel.
5. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto: David Harvey.
6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective: Donna Haraway.
Part II: The Enterprise:
Introduction.
7. What Geography Ought to Be: Peter Kropotkin.
8. On the Scope and Methods of Geography: Halford J. Mackinder.
9. The Study of Geography: Franz Boas.
10. Meaning and Aim of Human Geography: Paul Vidal de la Blache.
11. Geography without Human Agency: A Humanistic Critique: David Ley.
12. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography: Derek Gregory.
Part III: Nature, Culture and Landscape:
Introduction.
13. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Clarence J. Glacken.
14. Influences of Geographic Environment: Ellen C. Semple.
15. Civilizations: Organisms or Systems?: Karl W. Butzer.
16. Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature: Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe.
17. The Morphology of Landscape: Carl O. Sauer.
18. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape: John B. Jackson.
19. Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape: Stephen Daniels.
20. Geography as a Science of Observation: The Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity: Gillian Rose.
21. The Land Ethic: Aldo Leopold.
Part IV: Region, Place and Locality:
Introduction.
22. Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness: A. J. Herbertson.
23. Human Regions: H. J. Fleure.
24. The Character of Regional Geography: Richard Hartshorne.
25. In What Sense a Regional Problem? Doreen Massey.
26. From Orientalism: Edward W. Said.
27. Deconstructing the Map: J. B. Harley.
28. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective: Yi-Fu Tuan.
29. A Woman's Place?: Linda McDowell and Doreen Massey.
30. The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies: Philip Cooke.
31. The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept: George H. T. Kimble.
Part V: Space, Time and Space-Time:
Introduction.
32. The Territorial Growth of States: Friedrich Ratzel.
33. The Geographical Pivot of History: Halford J. Mackinder.
34. Owners' Time and Own Time: The Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880: Nigel Thrift.
35. Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination: F. K. Schaefer.
36. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts: John D. Nystuen.
37. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation: David Harvey.
38. Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology: Edward W. Soja.
39. The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness: Alan Pred.
40. Diorama, Path and Project: Torsten Hagerstrand.
41. A View of the GIS Crisis in Geography: Stan Openshaw. A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995: Alisdair Rogers.