For a new geography / Milton Santos ; translated and with an introduction by Archie Davies.

Author/creator Santos, Mílton author.
Other author Davies, Archie translator, writer of introduction.
Format Book
PublicationMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Descriptionxxxv, 225 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePor uma geografia nova. English.
Contents Translator's introduction: The newness of geography / Archie Davies -- Introduction : from a critique of geography to a critical geography -- The founders : scientific pretensions -- Philosophical inheritance -- Postwar renovation : "a new geography" -- Quantitative geography -- Models and systems : the ecosystems -- The geography of perception and behavior -- The triumph of formalism and ideology -- The balance of the crisis : geography, widow of space -- A new interdisciplinarity -- An attempt to define space -- Space : reflection of society or social fact? -- Space : a factor? -- Space as social order -- In search of a paradigm -- Total space in our time -- State and space : the nation-state as a geographical unit of study -- The ideas of totality and social formation and the renovation of geography -- The idea of time in geographical studies -- Conclusion: Geography and the future of man.
General note"This book was originally published in Portuguese as Por uma Geografia Nova: Da Critica da Geografia a uma Geografia Critica. copyright Editora da Universidade de São Paulo 1978."
General note"Originally published in 1978, For a New Geography marked the emergence of Milton Santos as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and a foremost global theorist of space"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Santos, Milton. Por uma geografia nova. English For a new geography Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021] 9781452963242
LCCN 2021022888
ISBN9781517909079 hardcover
ISBN1517909074 hardcover
ISBN9781517909086 paperback
ISBN1517909082 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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