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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: xiii, 330 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.9/033 22
LOC classification:
  • B802 .W58 2007eb
Online resources:
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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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 910.9/033 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

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

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.