Making Histories And Constructing Human Geographies: The Local Transformation Of Practice, Power Relations, And Consciousness - Softcover

Pred, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367164655 ISBN 13: 9780367164652

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book aims to acquaint American historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with a discourse that questions prioritizing of the temporal over the spatial. It contends that social structuring processes are context dependent, for they involve the unfolding of historical geographies.

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About the Author

Allan Pred is professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley. For some time his theoretical and empirical writings have centered on the simultaneous making of histories and construction of human geographies. He has been an important figure in both the introduction of social theory into human geography and the introduction of human geography into social theory. Among his many previously published books are The Spatial Dynamics of U.S. Urban-Industrial Growth (1966); Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information (1973); Place, Practice and Structure (1986); and Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late-Nineteenth Century Stockholm (1990).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367164655
• ISBN 13: 9780367164652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252