Enlightenment geography
Subtitle: the political languages of British geography, 1650-1850
By: Robert J. Mayhew.
Series: Studies in modern history; Studies in modern history (St. Martin's Press)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Geography -- Great Britain -- History.; Political geography -- History.; Enlightenment -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Historical geography.; Great Britain -- Politics and government.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Description: "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. It is a contribution to the intellectual history of geographical knowledge in particular and of Britain more generally. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined, as is the print culture geography before its formalization as a discipline in the late nineteenth century. In all these respects, geography is shown to have been tied to political discourse. Enlightenment Geography questions broad assumptions about British intellectual history through a revisionist history of geography."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-316) and index.