UID:
edocfu_9959234968202883
Format:
1 online resource (358 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-96685-1
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9786611966850
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0-226-90407-5
Content:
The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized-its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance-the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. Placing the Enlightenment contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and conce
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: the Enlightenment--questions of geography -- Geographies of the Enlightenment -- The Enlightenment in national context -- Above and beyond the nation : cosmopolitan networks -- Doing Enlightenment : local sites and social spaces -- Geographical knowledge and the Enlightenment world -- Exploring, traveling, mapping -- Encountering the physical world -- Geographies of human difference -- Geography in the Enlightenment -- Geography and the book -- Geography in practice -- Spaces and forms of geographical sociability -- Conclusion: the Enlightenmen--questions of geography.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-90405-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226904078
