Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Portraying the Earth
About this title: In program one AP human geography: Portraying the Earth - Prof. Alec Murphy lays the foundation for all of geography: mapping and other representations of planet Earth . The program presents the history of portraying the Earth from...
The living planet : a portrait of the earth: the building of the earth
David Attenborough reveals how huge forces formed the earth, how continents move and how the planet has become so amazingly varied. He visits an erupting volcano in Iceland, finds giant plants on Mount Kenya and investigates the re-colonization of w...
Haiti and Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of intermarriage, and how the country's troubled history with Haiti informs notions of racial classification. In H...
Cuba: The Next Revolution
In Cuba, Professor Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics, and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th-century sugar industry, and how race and ra...