Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment by Dolan, B.

Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312230517)

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Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment by Dolan, B.

Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment

$169.99
Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment by Dolan, B.

Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment

$169.99
Format: Hardcover
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The explorations of eighteenth-century travellers to the 'European frontiers' were often geared to define the cultural, political, and historical boundaries of 'European civilization.' In an age when political revolutions shocked nations into reassessing what separated the civilised from the barbaric, how did literary travellers contemplate the characteristics of their continental neighbours? Focusing on the writings of British travellers, we see how a new view of Europe was created, one that juxtaposed the customs and living conditions of populations in an attempt to define 'modern' Europe against a 'yet unenlightened' Europe.

Author: B. Dolan
ISBN-10: 0312230516
ISBN-13: 9780312230517
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2000
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.66w x 0.84d

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Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 26
By B. Dolan
By B. Dolan
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BRIAN DOLAN is Research Lecturer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of East Anglia. After earning his PhD at the University of Cambridge he taught historiography of science at Umeå University in Sweden, and the history of the life sciences at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. He has published on the history of scientific illustration, geology, and chemistry, and is the editor of Science Unbound: Geography, Space, and Discipline (1998).

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