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Enlightenment Geography
Robert J. Mayhew
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Description for Enlightenment Geography
Hardback. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Modern History
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312234751
SKU
V9780312234751
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About Robert J. Mayhew
ROBERT MAYHEW was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is currently a Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University.
Reviews for Enlightenment Geography
'...a significant work of scholarship...' - Denis Cosgrove, Albion 'Mayhew provides us with a compelling genealogy of his subject.' - Colin Kidd, British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies '[Mayhew] provides an account of geographical thought that might be more recognisable to contemporaries...As a result, his book is consistently ... Read more