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Geography and Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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Geography and Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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"Geography and Enlightenment" explores both the Enlightenment as a
geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the
Enlightenment. From wide-ranging disciplinary and topical
perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the
world of the long eighteenth century was brought to view and shaped
through map and text, exploration and argument, within and across
spatial and intellectual borders.
The first set of chapters charts the intellectual and geographical
contexts in which Enlightenment ideas began to form, including both
the sites in which knowledge was created and discussed and the
different means used to investigate the globe. Detailed
explorations of maps created during this period show how these new
ways of representing the world and its peoples influenced
conceptions of the nature and progress of human societies, while
studies of the travels of people and ideas reveal the influence of
far-flung places on Enlightenment science and scientific
credibility. The final set of chapters emphasizes the role of
particular local contexts in Enlightenment thought.
Contributors are Michael T. Bravo, Paul Carter, Denis Cosgrove,
Stephen Daniels, Matthew Edney, Anne Marie Claire Godlewska, Peter
Gould, Michael Heffernan, David N. Livingstone, Dorinda Outram,
Chris Philo, Roy Porter, Nicolaas Rupke, Susanne Seymour, Charles
Watkins, and Charles W. J. Withers.
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