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Placing the Enlightenment : thinking geographically about the age of reason

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Placing the Enlightenment : thinking geographically about the age of reason / Charles W.J. Withers.

Author

Withers, Charles W. J.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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xiii, 330 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-314) and index.

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.

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