Title: The Power of place : bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations /
Authors: Agnew, John A.; Duncan, James S.
Publisher: Unwin Hyman,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Human geography.; Social sciences.; Geopolitics.
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.