Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850 (Studies in Modern History) - Hardcover

Mayhew, R.

 
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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. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined and shown to tie it to political discourse. Geographical works are shown to have developed Whig and Tory defences of the English church and state, consonant with the conservatism of the English Enlightenment. These politicizations were questioned by those indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment. Enlightenment Geography questions broad assumptions about British intellectual history through a revisionist history of geography.

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ROBERT MAYHEW was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is currently a Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University.

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9780312234751: Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850 (Studies in Modern History)

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ISBN 10:  0312234759 ISBN 13:  9780312234751
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000
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