Author: John EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
A New System of Geography and Universal History of the Known World ...
Author: John EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
A New System of Geography and Universal History of the Known World ...
Author: John EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Four Centuries of Special Geography
Author: O.F.G. SitwellPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844574
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
Author: Paul StockPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019253386X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
American History in Transition
Author: Yoshinari YamaguchiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004424318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In American History in Transition, Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap’s Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard’s geographic history and Francis Parkman’s history of deep time to Henry Adams’s thermodynamic history. Although not a well-organized set of professional researchers, these historians shared the same concern: the problems of temporalization and secularization in history writing. As the time-honored framework of sacred history was gradually outdated, American historians at that time turned to individual facts as possible evidence for a new generalization, and tried different “scientific” theories to give coherency to their writings. History writing was in its transitional phase, shifting from religion to science, deduction to induction, and static to dynamic worldview.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, Late the Property of a Gentleman of this City, Deceased, on Sale for Ready Money, by J. Chilcott, Bookseller, ..
Author: John ChilcottA Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description