Charles Withers

Geography and science in Britain, 1831-1939

A study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography's civic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781526116710
• ISBN-10: 1526116715
• Artikelnr.: 47562108

Autorenporträt

Charles W. J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Histories and geographies of science 2. Geographies of
civic science: the British Association at work 3. The science of geography
in the British Association 4. The dominion of science and geographies of
empire: the BAAS overseas 1884-1929 5. Hierarchy, distribution, connection:
geography as a science of the physical world 6. Measurement, exploration
and ethnology: geography and the human sciences 7. Science, education and
the 'crisis' in geography, 1910-c.1939 8. Conclusion: the British
Association, geographies of science and the science of geography
Bibliography Index