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
Table of 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
