Geographic perspectives in history
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Geographic perspectives in history
B. Blackwell, 1989
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"Essays in honor of Edward Whiting Fox."--P. facing t.p
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Space, place, distance and environment are readily understood as crucial components of the modern world. Their interaction has been equally important in the past in conditioning the histories of the peoples of the world. Yet fifteen years ago Edward Fox wrote, to general agreement: "History and geography were once assumed to be sister sciences so close in method and focus as to verge on representing two aspects of the single subjects. Today they share nothing, not even regrets for what has been looked upon as a particularly promising alliance". This volume represents a multi-disciplinary discussion of the problems posed by Edward Whiting Fox's "History in Geographic Perspective" and demonstrates some of the possible advances that can be made from the original text. Ranging across time and cultures the contributors, who are historians, geographers, anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists, examine how subjects from political institutions and social relations to commerce and transportation, wars and revolutions have all been determined by the human environment.
Table of Contents
Editors' Preface 1. D.W. Meinig: A Geographical Transect of the Atlantic World 2. William H. McNeill: The Eccentricity of Wheels, or European transportation in Historical Perspectives 3. Martin Bernal: First by Land, Then by Sea: Thoughts about the Social Formation of the Mediterranean and Greece 4. John V. Murra: High Altitude Andean Societies and their Economics 5. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese: Social Classes and Class Struggles in Geographic Perspective 6. Robert Wuthnow: Towns, Regimes, and Religious Movements in the Reformation 7. David Ringrose: Towns, Transport, and Crown: Geography and the Decline of Spain 8. Leonard Hochberg: The Atlantic Revolution? The Crises of England, The United States and France 9. P. S. Seaver: A Geographic Perspective in Microcosm: An Artisanal Case Study 10. Emmanuel LeRoi Ladurie & Oreste Ranum: The Scribe-etnnographer, Pierre Prion of Aubais 11. Forrest McDonald: Cultural Continuity and the Shaping of the American South 12. James E. Vance, Jr: Transportation and the Geographical Expression of Capitalism 13. Charles Tilly: The Geography of European Statemaking and capitalism Since 1500 14. Immanuel Wallerstein: France, A Special Case? A World-Systems Perspective 15. G. William Skinner: Yet Another France: Regional Systems in the 19th Century 16. Traian Stoianovitch: The Segmentary State and `La Grande Nation' 17. Elias Mandala: Commodity Production, Subsistence, and the State in Colonial Africa: Peasant Cotton Agriculture in the Lower Tchiri (Shire) Valley of Malawi, 1907-1951 18. Richard Rosecrance: The Commercial Society and International Relations Epilogue: Edward Whiting Fox.
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