Richard Peet is Professor at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University and Co-Editor of Economic Geography. His previous books include Radical Geography (1978), International Capitalism and International Restructuring (with Nigel Thrift, 1987), New Models in Geography (2 volumes, 1989), Global Capitalism (1991) and Liberation Ecologies (with Michael Watts, 1996).

• List of Figures. Preface.1. Introduction: Geography, Philosophy and Social Theory.2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Humanistic Geography.3. Radical Geography, Marxism, and Marxist Geography.4. Structuralism and Structural Marxist Geography.5. Structuration, Realism and Locality Studies.6. Poststructuralism, Postmodernism and Postmodern Geographies.7. Feminism Theory and the Geography of Gender.8. Conclusion.Bibliography.Index.

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