Title: Enlightenment geography
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.
Subjects: Enlightenment, Geography, Historical geography, History, Intellectual life, Political geography, Politics and government, Geography, history, Great britain, historical geography, Great britain, politics and government, Great britain, intellectual life
Places: Great Britain