Author: Herman MollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A System Of Geography: Or, A New & Accurate Description Of The Earth In All Its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography, And Maps of Every Country, Fairly Engraven on Copper, According to the Latest Discoveries and Corrections (etc.)
Author: Herman MollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A System Of Geography: Or, A New & Accurate Description Of The Earth In All Its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography, And Maps of Every Country, Fairly Engraven on Copper, According to the Latest Discoveries and Corrections (etc.)
Author: Johannes LuytsRegnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735
Author: Marco CaboaraPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004530908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce
Author: A. NeillPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230629229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic characters report on remote parts of the globe in the twin contexts of an increasingly powerful imperial state and an emerging world economy. Examining voyage narratives by William Dampler, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, James Cook, and William Bligh, Neill demonstrates how the transformation of travellers from nomadic outlaws into civil subjects , and vice versa, takes place against the political-economic backdrop of commercial expansion.
Old Decorative Maps and Charts
Author: Arthur Lee HumphreysPublisher: London : Halton & Truscott Smith
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
Author: Robert MarkleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052181944X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A 2006 investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.
An introduction to geography. Europe
Author: Herman MollGeographies of an Imperial Power
Author: Jeremy BlackPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253031591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the "barbarism" beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known.
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