Placing the Enlightenment : thinking geographically about the age of reason /

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The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. This work contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Withers, Charles W. J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Enlightenment.
Philosophy, Modern > 18th century.
Geography.
Space.
Philosophy, Modern.
Siècle des Lumières.
Philosophie > 18e siècle.
Géographie.
Espace.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL > Reference.
TRAVEL > Road Travel.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Adventure.
Enlightenment
Geography
Philosophy, Modern
Space
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Geografie.
History of ideas.
History of science.
Science: general issues.
Society.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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