ABSTRACT
Agnew condemns both stances as 'totalistic visions' (p. 92) and proposes that neither works alone because '[regions] both reflect differences in the world and ideas about differences' (p. 93).
Until the last two decades, the intellectual concept vision prevailed: this was Hartshorne's interpretation (1939; 1959), and Whittlesey's (1954), Jordan's (1992), and Meinig's (1978: 1202) too:
Regions are abstractions, they exist in our minds. As a form of territoriality they can become imbued with emotion and influence our actions, but we are using them first as tools of thought, as means of analysis and synthesis.
