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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1883Original Publisher: Turner ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Minnesota. ... Read more

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Great book for a trip to a new state
If you are taking your kids to a new state to explore, this book may help them get excited.Also, it cut up to use with their scrapbook when they get back.Not really a good one for reports, unless they need to make a travel brochure. ... Read more

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This book is an adventure story that pulls in the reader.Four kids and a TV talk show host are stuck in a runaway hot air balloon and as they travel around the state, readers try to figure out where they are based on the geographical features glimpsed from above and clues from the characters' conversations.Students get one point for every correct answer.Excellent for a classroom game, school-wide competition or individual reading.This is a great geography skill-builder + encourages research, map reading and more.Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book.Put this title high on your list! ... Read more

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solid text
Tim Cresswell's in place/out of place will not strike readers familiarwith recent work in cultural geography or cultural studies asgroundbreaking; much of the theoretical work does, as cresswell readilyadmits, come from a synthesis of the 'new cultural geography.' The casestudies are also somewhat predictable - and some of it gives into thecelebratory cultural studies 'graffitti as resistance' mode too easily anduncritically.Nonetheless, it's a fine introduction to the genre, the casestudies make for insteresting reading, and it's a sure hit withundergraduates. ... Read more

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space is political
Space is political. The geographical world in which we live is created by numerous forces. From the French and American revolutions to the recent `anti-globalization' movement, numerous social movements shaped cities, nations, regions and the world. Social movements are among the strongest forces that modified the geography of this planet. However, few geographers took them as a legitimate object of studies. Most of the time, social movements were seen by geographers as the Marxian antithesis of oppression or as a mean of communication for new values and identities which themselves are the focal points for researches. In his book, Geography and Social Movement, Byron Miller intended to bridge this gap in our discipline. At the same time he brings to the studies of social movements some concepts developed by geographers and also introduce in our discipline ideas developed by sociologists and political scientists on social movements. The task of introducing new concepts in a discipline is an complex one; the task of integrating different academic tradition is probably even more difficult. It is by the study of the antinuclear activism in the Boston area that Miller tried to accomplish those tasks. Some antinuclear groups in three municipalities, Lexington, Waltham and Cambridge were studied as well as their socio-political and institutional environment. Although sharing some similarities those three municipalities also present different characteristics that affected the strategies and successes of the antinuclear groups. This suggest that social movements cannot be isolated from their environments; social movement should be situated in space and time. Or as, Miller himself puts it: "Social movement mobilization is geographically constituted at a variety of scales, operates in place-specific contexts, draws on place-based and place-structured identities, and employs spatial strategies" (p. 24). If geography is a structuring element of social movements, it is also subject to contestation. Place, space and scale are seen by many geographers as being socially constructed. Even if not adding much to the understanding of this process, Miller however argue that geography by itself is an object of struggle; "[...] Social movements frequently struggle over the construction of geographies."(p. xii). Many space constructivist geographers worked on different social movements (e.g. Herod 1995,1997; Smith 1993) but often ignored the researches done by other social movements scholars. Seeing space as a social construction could help to understand how social movements work. Space can therefore be seen as both an arena for political debate but also as part of the debates. However, Miller did not went very far in this direction; his originality was simply to link explicitly those geographical concepts with social movements studies concepts. Doing that he did more than linking traditions; he pointed out some of the gaps in social movements studies that geographers could fill. Drawing on the "opportunity structure" school of thought in social movement studies where the development of social movements are explained by their opportunities and constraints, he analysed how this socio-political and institutional environment shaped the antinuclear peace movement in each municipality. Even if military defence matters in the United States belong to national scale politics, Miller found that the anti-nuclear movement in the Boston area aimed its actions at the local states rather than the national state. The relatively more opened opportunity structure at the local state resulted in locally oriented mobilization and political action. This geographical interpretation of the "opportunity structure" is probably the major contribution of Miller. However, his exploratory bridges built between different academic discipline might inspire several geographers to look at the work done in social movement studies and several other social science scholars and students to consider spatial and scalar constituent of social movements. After all, space is political and politic is spatial. ... Read more