The power of place [electronic resource] : bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations / edited by John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan.

Contributor(s): Agnew, John A | Duncan, James SMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge library editions. Social and cultural geography ; v. 1Publication details: Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2014Description: 231 p. : ill., mapISBN: 9781315848617Subject(s): Human geography | Social sciences | GeopoliticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to view Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction / John A. Agnew & James S. Duncan -- 2. The devaluation of place in social science / John A. Agnew -- 3. Place, region, and modernity / J. Nicholas Entrikin -- 4. Modernism, post-modernism, and the struggle for place / David Ley -- 5. Home and class among an American landed elite / Peter J. Hugill -- 6. Social and symbolic places in Renaissance Venice and Florence / Edward Muir & Ronald F.E. Weissman -- 7. Power and place in the Venetian territories / Denis Cosgrove -- 8. Place, meaning, and discourse in French language geography / Vincent Berdoulay -- 9. Place and culture : two disciplines, two concepts, two images of Christ, and a single goal / Miles Richardson -- 10. The language and significance of place in Latin America / David Robinson -- 11. The power of place in Kandy, Sri Lanka : 1780-1980 / James S. Duncan -- 12. Beijing and the power of place in modern China / Marwyn S. Samuels & Carmencita Samuels.
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First published in 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / John A. Agnew & James S. Duncan -- 2. The devaluation of place in social science / John A. Agnew -- 3. Place, region, and modernity / J. Nicholas Entrikin -- 4. Modernism, post-modernism, and the struggle for place / David Ley -- 5. Home and class among an American landed elite / Peter J. Hugill -- 6. Social and symbolic places in Renaissance Venice and Florence / Edward Muir & Ronald F.E. Weissman -- 7. Power and place in the Venetian territories / Denis Cosgrove -- 8. Place, meaning, and discourse in French language geography / Vincent Berdoulay -- 9. Place and culture : two disciplines, two concepts, two images of Christ, and a single goal / Miles Richardson -- 10. The language and significance of place in Latin America / David Robinson -- 11. The power of place in Kandy, Sri Lanka : 1780-1980 / James S. Duncan -- 12. Beijing and the power of place in modern China / Marwyn S. Samuels & Carmencita Samuels.

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