Placing the Enlightenment : thinking geographically about the age of reason / / Charles W.J. Withers.
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Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 330 p., 12 p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). |
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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.