Routledge Studies in Human Geography Ser.: Time-Space Compression : Historical Geographies by Barney Warf (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Time-Space Compression : Historical Geographies, Paperback by Warf, Barney, ISBN 113801057X, ISBN-13 9781138010574, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This volume explores the multiple ways in which people experience time-space compression in varying historical and geographical circumstances. Including economic, cultural, social, political and psychological dimensions of time-space compression.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-10113801057X

ISBN-139781138010574

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038807096

Product Key Features

Number of Pages10 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTime-Space Compression : Historical Geographies

SubjectHistorical Geography, Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, General

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

AuthorBarney Warf

Subject AreaSocial Science, Science, History

SeriesRoutledge Studies in Human Geography Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length6.1 in

Item Width9.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Warf has taken an impossibly deep and broad topic and written an excellent historical outline of the evolution of time-space compression from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. The book is very well written, with a writing style that makes complex topics and ideas, such as tructuration theory, accessible and easy to understand. hus, this book is appropriate for a ange of readers from undergraduates to full academics." e"The Canadian Geographer, Daniel H. Olsen,Brandon University

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal304.2/3

Table Of Content1. Introduction: Folding Time and Space 2. Theorizing Time-Space Compression 3. Early Modern Time-Space Compression 4. Late Modern Time-Space Compression 5. Postmodern Time-Space Compression 6. Concluding Thoughts

SynopsisIf geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth's surface, a vital part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time appear as "natural" and outside of society, they are in fact social constructions; every society develops different ways of measuring, organizing, and perceiving them. Given steady increases in the volume and velocity of social transactions over space, time and space have steadily "shrunk" via the process of time-space compression. By changing the time-space prisms of daily life - how people use their times and spaces, the opportunities and constraints they face, the meanings they attach to them - time-space compression is simultaneously cultural, social, political, and psychological in nature. This book explores how various social institutions and technologies historically generated enormous improvements in transportation and communications that produced transformative reductions in the time and cost of interactions among places, creating ever-changing geographies of centrality and peripherality. Warf invokes a global perspective on early modern, late modern, and postmodern capitalism. He makes use of data concerning travel times at various historical junctures, maps of distances between places at different historical moments, anecdotal analyses based on published accounts of people's sense of place, examinations of cultural forms that represented space (e.g., paintings), and quotes about the culture of speed. Warf shows how time-space compression varies under different historical and geographical conditions, indicating that it is not one, single, homogenous process but a complex, contingent, and contested one. This book will be useful book for those studying and researching Geography, History, Sociology, and Political Science, as well as Anthropology, and Philosophy.

LC Classification NumberBD632.W37 2014