For a new geography

by Santos, Milton

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Full title :For a new geography / Milton Santos ; translated and with an introduction by Archie Davies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

Notes

"This book was originally published in Portuguese as Por uma Geografia Nova: Da Critica da Geografia a uma Geografia Critica. copyright Editora da Universidade de São Paulo 1978."

"Originally published in 1978, For a New Geography marked the emergence of Milton Santos as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and a foremost global theorist of space"-- Provided by publisher.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxv, 225 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781517909079, 1517909074, 9781517909086, 1517909082
oclc:on1246141330
LC Classification:G70
Dewey Decimal:910/.01

Translator's introduction: The newness of geography / Archie Davies -- Introduction : from a critique of geography to a critical geography -- The founders : scientific pretensions -- Philosophical inheritance -- Postwar renovation : "a new geography" -- Quantitative geography -- Models and systems : the ecosystems -- The geography of perception and behavior -- The triumph of formalism and ideology -- The balance of the crisis : geography, widow of space -- A new interdisciplinarity -- An attempt to define space -- Space : reflection of society or social fact? -- Space : a factor? -- Space as social order -- In search of a paradigm -- Total space in our time -- State and space : the nation-state as a geographical unit of study -- The ideas of totality and social formation and the renovation of geography -- The idea of time in geographical studies -- Conclusion: Geography and the future of man.