ISBN 10 : 0719065100
ISBN 13 : 9780719065101

This text provides an interdisciplinary examination of the geographical nature of culture and society in 18th-century Britain and the British world. The book's introduction identif..

ISBN 10 : 9780857718969
ISBN 13 : 0857718967

Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment, permeating many aspects of Georgian society and culture. As new and mysterious realms were ..

ISBN 10 : 9781137311320
ISBN 13 : 1137311320

This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered par..

ISBN 10 : 1618118315
ISBN 13 : 9781618118318

Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow ..

ISBN 10 : 9781317128984
ISBN 13 : 1317128982

The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spatial dimensions of book history..

ISBN 10 : 0521642027
ISBN 13 : 9780521642026

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 us..

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Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of ..