Placing the Enlightenment : thinking geographically about the age of reason /
The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. This work 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...
| Основен автор: | Withers, Charles W. J. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260258 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Placing the Enlightenment. |
Съдържание:
- 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.