Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850 - Couverture rigide

Mayhew, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 033379186X ISBN 13 : 9780333791868

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Enlightenment Geography is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined and shown to tie it to political discourse. Geographical works are shown to have developed Whig and Tory defences of the English church and state, consonant with the conservatism of the English Enlightenment. These politicizations were questioned by those indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment. Enlightenment Geography questions broad assumptions about British intellectual history through a revisionist history of geography.

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À propos de l'auteur

ROBERT MAYHEW was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is currently a Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 033379186X
• ISBN 13: 9780333791868
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
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