Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History

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CUP Archive, Nov 6, 1986 - History - 256 pages
First published in 1986, this book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people and things by controlling area. This argument is developed by analysing the possible advantages and disadvantages that territoriality can provide, and by considering why some and not others arise at particular times. Major changes are explored in the relationships between territory and society from primitive times to the present day, with special attention to the distinctions between premodern and modern uses of space and territory. Specific analyses of the pre-modern uses of territoriality are provided by the history of the Catholic Church, and, for the modern context, by study of North American political territorial organization and the organization of factory, office, and home.

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Notes on meanings
18
Territoriality and geography
25
Kish
76
The Church
91
Milwaukee WI
97
history and theory
104
The early Middle Ages
114
Discovery and colonization
120
North America and Ireland
138
Other territorial effects
143
Perspectives on twentiethcentury territorial effects
154
NeoMarxist perspectives
163
The work place
175
society territory and space
216
territoriality space and time
226
Copyright

The American territorial system
127

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