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The Myth of Continents - A Critique of Metageography (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R805
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The Myth of Continents - A Critique of Metageography (Paperback, New): Martin W. Lewis, Karen Wigen

The Myth of Continents - A Critique of Metageography (Paperback, New)

Martin W. Lewis, Karen Wigen

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"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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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1997
First published: 1998
Authors: Martin W. Lewis • Karen Wigen
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 383
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20743-1
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-520-20743-2
Barcode: 9780520207431

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