Thoroughly revised and updated, this text introduces students of human geography and allied disciplines to the fundamental concept of place, combining discussion about everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it.

Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural geography currently available.

By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.

Examines the principles and techniques of literary nonfiction through analysis of essays by fifteen accomplished writers, with examples of memoir, literary journalism, medical reporting, and travel writing by James Conaway, Joan Didion, Tracy Kidder, John McPhee, and others.

Offering biographies, articles on the history of the entire range of Westward Expansion topics and overview entries on complex topics, the 4-vol. Encyclopedia examines events, organizations and social customs that shaped the American West.

Provides a complete and definite history of racial and ethnic groups that populated the American West. The volumes cover the settling of the West and include coverage of movements of native American tribes, African Americans and the often underreported role of women in the West's development.

The Encyclopedia of Women in the American West captures the lives of more than 150 women who made their mark from the mid-1800s to the present, contextualizing their experiences and contributions to American society. It also provides topical essays.

This work covers not only the significant events and actors of Western politics, but also deals with key institutional, historical, environmental, and sociopolitical themes and concepts that are important to more fully understanding the politics of the West over the last century.

A cornerstone reference that tells the story of 20th-century America, examining the interplay of policies, events, and everyday life in each decade of the 1900s.

With more than 300 entries written by an international team of leading authorities in the field, the Encyclopedia of Human Geography offers a comprehensive overview of the major ideas, concepts, terms, and approaches that characterize a notoriously diverse field.