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The geographic imagination of modernity : geography, literature, and philosophy in German Romanticism /

Tang traces the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought in the decades around 1800. This period represents an extraordinary intellectual threshold, a time when European society invented new conceptual strategies for making sense of itself. The book brings to light geography as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tang, Chenxi, 1968-
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Tang traces the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought in the decades around 1800. This period represents an extraordinary intellectual threshold, a time when European society invented new conceptual strategies for making sense of itself. The book brings to light geography as one of the most important of these conceptual strategies. Its inquiry revolves, first of all, around the rise of geographic science, as it is in this science that the geographic imagination crystallizes. The second part offers a systematic study of the key spatial categories of the modern geographic imagination, including orientation, cultural landscape, and geohistory.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.
ISBN:0804787484
9780804787482