David Livingstone (Belfast Queen's University, University of Warwi

Broschiertes Buch

The Geographical Tradition

Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise

Beschreibung

Describes the activities of the explorers and map-makers of Renaissance and early modern Europe; the role of geography during the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and the Darwinian Revolution; and the interactions between geography and empire building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Autor

David Livingstone is the author of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987), Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1987) and The Preadamite Theory (1992), and of many articles on the history of goegraphy and the history of science. He is Reader in the School of Geosciences, at the Queen's University of Belfast.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780631185864
• ISBN-10: 0631185860
• Artikelnr.: 13758312