The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise

David Livingstone

ISBN 10: 0631185860 / ISBN 13: 9780631185864

Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1993

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. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: PDX; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 642. . 1993. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780631185864

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0631185860
• ISBN-13: 9780631185864
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

The Geographical Tradition presents the history of an essentially contested tradition. By examining a series of key episodes in geography's history since 1400, Livingstone argues that the messy contingencies of history are to be preferred to the manufactured idealizations of the standard chronicles. Throughout, the development of geographical thought and practice is portrayed against the background of the broader social and intellectual contexts of the times. Among the topics investigated are geography during the Age of Reconnaissance, the Scientific Revolution and The Englightenment; subsequently geography's relationships with Darwinism, imperialism, regionalism, and quantification are elaborated.

Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.