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008 090406s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng d
010 _a 2009014573
015 _aGBA954671
020 _a9781606232620 (pbk.)
020 _a1606232622 (pbk.)
020 _a9781606232637 (hardcover)
020 _a1606232630 (hardcover)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn299710278
040 _aDLC
_dCeida
_bspa
082 0 0 _a910
082 0 0 _a338.9
084 _aH3
245 0 2 _aA world of difference
_b: encountering and contesting development
_c/ Eric Sheppard ... [et al.].
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aNew York
_a; London
_b: Guilford Press
_c, cop. 2009.
300 _axix, 665 p.
_b: il., map.
_c; 27 cm
504 _aIncluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 609-642) e índice
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.
650 4 _9260
_aDesarrollo sostenible
650 4 _92576
_aHistoria
650 4 _94144
_aGeografía
700 1 _aSheppard, Eric S.
_918280
999 _c3288
_d3288