Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-642) and index.
Contents:
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.
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