Guide to Spotlight boxes and Case studiesContributorsGuided tourIntroduction: Geography: a mirror to the worldSection 1: Worlds in the past1. Pre-capitalist worlds2. The rise and spread of capitalism3. The making of the twentieth-century world Section 2: Population, resources, food, the environment and development4. Demographic transformations5. Resources and development6. Valuing the environment 7. Changing geographies of food consumption and production8. Worlds apart: global difference and inequality Section 3: Society, settlement and culture9. Cities: urban worlds10. Social inequalities and spatial exclusions11. Rural worlds12. Social constructions of nature13. Geography, culture and global change Section 4: Production, exchange and consumption14. Geographies of the economy15. The geographies of global production networks16. Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift17. The global financial system: worlds of monies18. Consumption and its geographies Section 5: Political geographies: territoriality, states and geopolitics19. Territory, space and society20. The place of the nation-state21. Geopolitical traditions GlossaryBibliographyIndex