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

The Geographical Tradition

Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780631185864
• ISBN-10: 0631185860
• Artikelnr.: 13758312

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
1. Should the History of Geography be X-Rated? Telling Geography's Story.
2. Of Myths and Maps: Geography in the Age of Reconnaissance.
3. Revolution, Celestial and Terrestrial: Geography nad the Scientific
Revolution.
4. Naturalists and Navigators: Geography in the Enlightenment.
5. Of Design and Dining Clubs: Pre-Darwinian Geography.
6. The Geographical Experiment: Evolution and the Founding of a Discipline.
7. A 'Sternly Practical' Pursuit: Geography, Race and Empire.
8. The Regionalising Ritual: Geography, Place and Particularity.
9. Statistics Don't Bleed: Quantification and its Detractors.
10. The Geographical Tradition: A Conversational Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.