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The myth of continents : a critique of metageography
- Title
- The myth of continents : a critique of metageography / Martin W. Lewis, Kären E. Wigen.
- Author
- Lewis, Martin W.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wigen, Kären, 1958-
- Description
- xv, 344 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Architecture of Continents -- 2. The Spatial Constructs of Orient and Occident, East and West -- 3. The Cultural Constructs of Orient and Occident, East and West -- 4. Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism -- 5. Global Geography in the Historical Imagination -- 6. World Regions: An Alternative Scheme -- Conclusion: Toward a Critical Metageography.
- ISBN
- 0520207424 (alk. paper)
- 0520207432 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780520207431 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96030294
- OCLC
- 35042696
- ocm35042696
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries