Placing the Enlightenment thinking geographically about the age of reason /

Main Author: Withers, Charles W. J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10266005
Table of Contents:
  • 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.