Geography, Science and National Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geography, Science and National Identity write by Charles W. J. Withers. This book was released on 2001-10-04. Geography, Science and National Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Withers' book brings together work on the history of geography and the history of science with extensive archival analysis to explore how geographical knowledge has been used to shape an understanding of the nation. Using Scotland as an exemplar, the author places geographical knowledge in its wider intellectual context to afford insights into perspectives of empire, national identity and the geographies of science. In so doing, he advances a new area of geographical enquiry, the historical geography of geographical knowledge, and demonstrates how and why different forms of geographical knowledge have been used in the past to constitute national identity, and where those forms were constructed and received. The book will make an important contribution to the study of nationhood and empire and will therefore interest historians, as well as students of historical geography and historians of science. It is theoretically engaging, empirically rich and beautifully illustrated.
Geography, science and national identity in early modern Britain
Geography, science and national identity in early modern Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geography, science and national identity in early modern Britain write by Charles W. J. Withers. This book was released on 1996. Geography, science and national identity in early modern Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geography and Revolution
Geography and Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geography and Revolution write by David N. Livingstone. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Geography and Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A term with myriad associations, revolution is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutions—Copernican, Newtonian, and Darwinian—ordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutions—the advent of print, time-keeping, and photography—emerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutions—in France, England, Germany, and the United States—are notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolution is an invitation to take the where as seriously as the who and the when in examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.
The Genius of the English Nation
The Genius of the English Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Genius of the English Nation write by Anna Suranyi. This book was released on 2008. The Genius of the English Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings.
Writing the Early Modern English Nation
Writing the Early Modern English Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Early Modern English Nation write by Herbert Grabes. This book was released on 2001. Writing the Early Modern English Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While there is overwhelming evidence that nationalism reached its peak in the later nineteenth century, views about when precisely national thinking and sentiment became strong enough to override all other forms of collective unity differ considerably. When one looks for the historical moment when the concept of the nation became a serious - and subsequently victorious - competitor to the monarchic dynasty as the most effective principle of collective unity, one must, at least for England, go back as far as the sixteenth century. The decisive change occurred when a split between the dynastic ruler and "England" could be widely conceived of and intensely felt, a split that established the nation as an autonomous - and more precious - body. Whereas such a differentiation between king and country was still imperceptible under Henry VIII, it was already an historical reality during the reign of Queen Mary. That the most important factors in this radical change were the Reformation and the printing press is by now well known. The particular aim of this volume is to demonstrate the pivotal role of pamphleteering - and the growing importance of public opinion in a steadily widening sense - within the process of the historical emergence of the concept of the nation as a culturally and politically guiding force. When it came to the voicing of dissident opinions, above all under Queen Mary and later during the reign of King James and Charles I, the printed pamphlet proved to be a far superior form of communication. This does not mean that books played no role in the early development and dissemination of the concept of an English nation. Especially the compendious new English histories written at the time did much to support the growth of cultural identity.
