Full Description
This book is intended to acquaint American historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with a discourse that questions the prioritizing of the temporal over the spatial—the historical over the geographical. Allan Pred argues that neither the study of history nor the execution of social or cultural analysis can be divorced from human-geographical
Contents
Foreword -- Pretext -- Making Histories and Constructing Human Geographies -- Biography Formation, Knowledge Acquisition, and the Growth and Transformation of Cities During the Late Mercantile Period: The Case of Boston, 1783-1812 -- Production, Family, and "Free-Time" Projects: A Time-Geographic Perspective on Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities -- Local and Regional Agricultural Transformation: The Case of Enclosures in Southern Sweden, 1750-1850 -- Popular Geography, Ideological Resistance, and the Transformation of Stockholm, 1880-1900 -- After Words on Then and There, Here and Now, and Afterwards
