The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh - 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 Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh write by Phil Dodds. This book was released on 2022. The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.
Capital Mapping
Capital Mapping - 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 Capital Mapping write by Philip Andrew Dodds. This book was released on 2017. Capital Mapping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geography and Enlightenment
Geography and Enlightenment - 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 Enlightenment write by David N. Livingstone. This book was released on 1999-12-15. Geography and Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment, 14 papers from a July 1996 conference in Edinburgh survey the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was shaped through map, text, exploration, and argument and within and across spatial and intellectual borders. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment
Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment - 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 Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment write by Robert Allan Houston. This book was released on 1994. Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive study of Edinburgh during a century of social transformation offers unparalleled detail on the ways in which urban life was transformed. Chapters on social relationships, the use of space, the place of the poor, religious values, riot and popular protest, and political economy build up to a powerful argument about social change. Houston's broader contribution is to explain how changes in social attitudes and values took root in a century that witnessed dramatic political, economic, and intellectual developments.
Geography, Science and National Identity
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.
