New Worlds, New Geographies (Space, Place, and Society)
by By Short, John R., De Lorris, Guillaume, and Robbins, Wolcott (TRN)
Category: Science , Earth Sciences , Geography

In ten essays, seven previously published, Short (geography, Syracuse U.) explores the struggles of governments and individuals to situate themselves within changing national states and the restructuring of urban spaces into a kind of global village. He contends that it is the responsibility of academics to help bring order to the chaos of postmodernity. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.