Cambridge Geography Reading List

(Tentative - compiled from college websites) 

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

S Corbridge, N Thrift & R Martin (eds): Money, Power and Space

R A Dodgshon: The European Past: social evolution and spatial order

D Gregory, R Walford (eds): Horizons in Human Geography

D Gregory, R Martin & G Smith (eds): Human Geography.  Society, Space and Social Science

D Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity

P Jackson, S Smith: Exploring social geography

R J Johnston: Geograply and geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945 (5th edition)

R J Johnston, P J Taylor (eds): A World in Crisis?  Geographical perspectives (2nd edition)

D Livingstone: The geographical tradition

D Massey: Spatial divisions of labour

R Muir: Political Geography

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

G C Brown, C J Hawkesworth, C L Wilson (eds): Understanding the Earth: a new synthesis

R J Chorley, S A Schumm, D Sugden: Geomorphology

M J Clark, K J Gregory, A Gurnell (eds): Horizons in Physical Geography

A S Goudie: Environmental change

K J Gregory: The nature of physical geography

R Haines-Young, J Petch: Physical geography: its nature and methods

S J Harrison, D Mottershead, I White: Environmental systems

G Petts, I Foster: Rivers and landscape

F Sandbach: Environment, ideology and policy

For 'People Space and Geographies of Difference'

• Held, D. (ed) 2004 A Globalizing world? Culture, Economics, Politics, Routledge / Open University Press, 2nd edition
• Murray, W.E. 2006 Geographies of Globalization, Routledge
• Gough, J., Eisenschitz, A. and McCulloch, A. 2006 Spaces of Social Exclusion, Routledge

For Historical Geography

• Davis, M. 2000 Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Modern World Economy, London: Verso
• Graham, B and Nash, C (eds) 2000 Modern Historical Geographies, Prentice Hall
• Pomeranz, K. 2000 The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton University Press

For Society Environment and Development

• Adams, W.M. 2001 Green Development: environment and sustainability in the Third World, Routledge, 2nd edition
• Allen, T. and Thomas, A. (eds) 2000 Poverty and Development into the 21st Century, Oxford University Press
• Lawson, V. 2007 Making Development Geography, Hodder Arnold, London

For the Physical Geography courses (Environmental Processes and Environmental Change)

• Barry, R.G., Chorley, R.J. and Chase, T. 2003 Atmosphere, weather and climate, Routledge
• Masselink, G. and Hughes, M.G. 2003 An introduction to coastal processes and geomorphology, Hodder Arnold
• Gaston, K. and Spicer, J. 2004 Biodiversity, Blackwell, 2nd edition
• Francis, P. and Oppenheimer, C. 2004 Volcanoes, Oxford University Press

General Reading

• Adams WM (2008), Green Development 3rd edition. Routledge, London
• Cloke P, Crang P and Goodwin M eds (2005), Introducing Human Geographies 2nd edition. Hodder Arnold, London
• Cook I, Crouch D, Naylor S and Ryan J eds (2000), Cultural Turns, Geographical Turns. Prentice Hall, Harlow
• Daniels P, Bradshaw M, Shaw D and Sidaway J eds (2008), An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century. Prentice Hall, Harlow
• Dicken P (2007), Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. Sage, London
• Graham B and Nash C eds (2000), Modern Historical Geographies. Prentice Hall, Harlow.

General Reading

• Christopherson RW (2008), Geosystems: an introduction to physical geography 7th Edition. Prentice Hall, Harlow
• Grotzinger J and Jordan TH (2010), Understanding Earth 6th Edition. WH Freeman and Co., New York
• Holden J (2005), An introduction to physical geography and the environment. Prentice Hall, Harlow
• Kump LR, Kasting JF and Crane RG (2009), The Earth System. Pearson, NJ
• Slaymaker O, Spencer T and Embleton-Hamann C eds (2009), Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.