{"product_id":"framing-the-world-margaret-small-9781783275205","title":"Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long sixteenth century saw a major shift in European geographical understanding: in the space of little more than a hundred years Western Europeans moved to see the world as a place in which all parts of the sphere were made by God for human exploitation and to interact with one another. Taking such a scenario as its historical backdrop, \u003cem\u003eFraming the Early Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e examines the influence of Greek and Roman ideas on the formulation of new geographical theories in sixteenth-century western Europe.\u003cbr\u003e While discussions of inhabitability dominate the geographical literature throughout the sixteenth century, humanist geographers of the sixteenth century, trained in Greek and Roman writings, found in them the key intellectual tools which allowed the \u003cem\u003eoikoumene\u003c\/em\u003e (the habitable world) to be redefined as a globally-connected world. In this world, all parts of the sphere were designed to be in communication with one another. The coincidence of the Renaissance and the period of European exploration enabled a new geographical understanding fashioned as much by classical theory as by early modern empirical knowledge. Newly discovered lands could then be defined, exploited and colonized. In this way, the author argues, the seeds of the modern era of colonization, expansionism and ultimately globalization were sown. \u003cem\u003eFraming the Early Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely work, contributing to a growing discourse on the origins of globalization and the roots of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e MARGARET SMALL is Lecturer in Early Modern History (Europe and the Wider World) at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Small\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783275200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783275205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Margaret Small","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941103304959,"sku":"9781783275205","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fd58d609-c33c-44cb-adb0-3d119b745d65.jpg?v=1681450926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/framing-the-world-margaret-small-9781783275205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}