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O.F.G. Sitwell - Four Centuries of Special Geography: An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published... - 9780774804448 - V9780774804448
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Four Centuries of Special Geography: An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published...

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Description for Four Centuries of Special Geography: An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published... Hardback. This bibliography aims to identify not only every book purporting to describe the countries of the world, published in English before 1888, but also all the editions of those books. An introduction to the 993 entries describes special geography as a genre and sets it in an historical context. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; GBCR; RGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 1066.

Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last fewdecades of the nineteenth century. However, during the precedingcenturies a large body of English-language literature relevant to thefield of special geography was published. Four Centuries of SpecialGeography lists all the works published before 1888 and includesdescriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.

Francis Sitwell has written an extensive introduction in which heprovides a detailed guide to the organization and contents of thebibliography. He also evaluates special geography as a genre whichcontributed to scholarly discourse from the sixteenth to the nineteenthcenturies. In addition, he examines the genre as a ... Read more

The result of several years of data-gathering, this book will be avaluable research tool for anyone seeking to examine aspects of thedevelopment of the field of geography in the years before it wasdefined as a distinct academic discipline. It will also be useful tothose whose research focuses on the acquisition and transmission ofgeographical knowledge prior to the twentieth century, in particular onthe place of geography in educational curricula.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
680
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774804448
SKU
V9780774804448
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About O.F.G. Sitwell
Francis Sitwell is a professor in the Department ofGeography at University of Alberta.

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