"Despite the recent surge of interest in geographical concepts and
ideas, most social, cultural, and political studies are riddled
with unexamined spatial assumptions. "The Myth of Continents
initiates a much-needed consideration of this state of affairs.
Through a wide-ranging analysis of such metageographical constructs
as East, West, Europe, and Asia, Lewis and Wigen provide
provocative insights into the nature and significance of the ways
we usually divide up the world. Moreover, they do so in an engaging
and highly readable style. Readers of "The Myth of Continents will
never again see the world regions in quite the same
way."--Alexander B. Murphy, author of "The Regional Dynamics of
Language Differentiation in Belgium
"An exciting, thoughtful, engaging, innovative book that
demonstrates the need to reexamine commonly held assumptions about
the world's division into continents, East/West, First/Second/Third
World, etc. Readers will be drawn to its 'big-think' quality of
shattering commonly held assumptions and to its up-to-the-minute
contemporary feel."--Benjamin Orlove, coeditor of "State, Capital,
and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political
Economy in Mexico and the Andes
"An important and long overdue housecleaning of old geographical
concepts, based upon an impressively wide reading of regional
literatures."--Edmund Burke III, editor of "Struggle and Survival
in the Modern Middle East
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