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Enlightenment Geography is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined and shown to tie it to political discourse. Geographical works are shown to have developed Whig and Tory defences of the English church and state, consonant with the conservatism of the English Enlightenment. These politicizations were questioned by those indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment. Enlightenment Geography questions broad assumptions about British intellectual history through a revisionist history of geography.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Effacing and Recovering theHistory of Geography
- 2 The Sphere of Geography and theRealm of Politics in Britain,c.1650–1850
- 3 ‘Geography is twinned withdivinity’: the Laudian Geographyof Peter Heylyn, 1621–57
- 4 John Ogilby and the IconographicRoads to a Restored RoyalistGeography, c.1660–75
- 5 The Political and GeographicalAppropriations of Edmund Bohun,1684–1710
- 6 Edmund Gibson’s Editions ofBritannia: Loyalist Chorographyand the Particularist Politics ofPrecedent, 1695–1722
- 7 Varieties of Orthodox Geography,1700–50: Three Vignettes: Echard,Wells and Salmon
- 8 The Denominational Politics ofTravel-Writing: the Case of ToryAnglicans in the 1770s
- 9 The Scottish Enlightenment andBritish Geography (I): Guthrie andPinkerton, c.1770–1802
- 10 On the Cusp of ModernGeography: Fieldwork andTextuality in the Career of JamesRennell, 1764–1830
- 11 The Scottish Enlightenment andBritish Geography (II): James Belland J.R. McCulloch, 1830–50
- 12 Coda: Halford Mackinder and theEmpire of ‘New’ PoliticalGeography, c.1887–1919
- 13 Enlightenments and Geography:Continuity and Change in thePolitics of Early-Modern BritishGeography, c.1550–c.1850
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Blank Page