Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History

by Robert David Sack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521311802
• ISBN13: 9780521311809
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"