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Cultural Geography, Second Edition, explores how cultural identities express themselves in the landscape. William Norton examines everything from Mormon temples to shopping malls, from war monuments to roadside memorials, from segregated beaches to gay pride parades. Landscapes emerge as sites of contestation and consumption, of oppression and exclusion, of sacred importance and ethnic pride, Cultural Geography reveals how people relate to place on a local, regional, and global scale. While covering the longstanding interests in ecology, landscape change, and cultural regions, which developed under the influence of Carl Sauer, the second edition of Cultural Geography also focuses on contemporary movements in the field. The 'new' cultural geography--informed by Marxist, feminist, humanist, and postmodernist concerns--challenges traditional ideas about humans and nature. Integrating physical and social science, Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, and Inequalities, Second Edition, provides thoughtful and balanced coverage of this discipline in all its aspects, past and present.