Geography, History and Social Sciences

Georges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social sciences? And why should t

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The GeoJournal Library Volume 27

Series Editor:

Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany

Editorial Board:

Paul Claval, France R. G. Crane, U.S.A. Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Gerd LOttig, Germany Walther Manshard, Germany Osamu Nishikawa, Japan Peter Tyson, South Africa

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Geography, History and Social Sciences edited by

GEORGES B. BENKO University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Department of Geography, Paris, France

and

ULF STROHMAYER University of Wales, Department of Geography, Lampeter, U.K. and Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.v.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congresb

ISBN 978-90-481-4335-1 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1681-9

ISBN 978-94-017-1681-9 (eBook)

Printed on acid-free paper

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© 1995 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1995 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

CONTENTS Part I: Introduction 1.

Geography, History and Social Sciences: An Introduction Georges B. Benko .......................................... 3

Part II: Spatial Thinking in History 2.

Lefebvre, Lacan and the Production of Space Derek Gregory ............................................ 15

3.

World Time and World Space or Just Hegemonic Time and Space? Milton Santos ............................................. 45

4.

The Laguage of Space Michel Foucault ........................................... 51

5.

Geography before Geography: Pre-Hellenistic Meteors and Climates Jean-Franftois Staszak ....................................... 57

6.

Geographical Systems and the Order of Reality Martin Hampl ............................................. 71

Part III: Cities and Landscapes in Time 7.

Landscape as Overlapping Neighbourhoods Torsten Hagerstrand ........................................ 83

8.

The Urban and the Rural: An Historical-Geographic Overview Clyde Mitchell Weaver . ...................................... 97

9.

Space and Creativity: 'Belle Epoque' Paris: Genesis of a World-Class Artistic Centre Paul Claval ............................................. 133

10.

From Weimar to Nuremberg: Social Legitimacy as a Spatial Process in Germany, 1923-1938 Ulf Strohmayer v

143

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CONTENTS

Part IV: Economics 11.

Contemporary Acceleration: World-Time and World-Space Milton Santos ............................................ 171

12.

Structural Change, Theories of Regulation and Regional Development Mick Dunford and Diane Perrons ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

13.

Theory of Regulation and Territory: An Historical View Georges B. Benko ..............................