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x, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
This book gives a comprehensive survey of 'islandness' and its defining features. It considers how islands' small scale, isolation and often lack of resources have affected them in the present day and in the past.
1. Islands: dreams and realities -- 2. Islands: their formation and nature -- 3. Insularity: processes and effects -- 4. Islands in the past -- 5. Islands: people and migration -- 6. Islands: communications and services -- 7. Politics and small islands -- 8. Making a living: island economies in the contemporary period -- 9. Islands of dreams: tourism, the universal panacea for island problems? -- 10. Conclusion: St. Helena wins again.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Routledge studies in human geography ; 1