pbFor the first time in English, a key work of critical geographyb p Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, iFor a New Geographyi is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos 1926-2001, as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.ppPublished in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, iFor a New Geographyi functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analys