The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise by Livingstone, David

The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631185864)

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The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise by Livingstone, David

The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise

$80.95
The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise by Livingstone, David

The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise

$80.95
Format: Paperback
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The Geographical Tradition presents the history of an essentially contested tradition. By examining a series of key episodes in geography's history since 1400, Livingstone argues that the messy contingencies of history are to be preferred to the manufactured idealizations of the standard chronicles. Throughout, the development of geographical thought and practice is portrayed against the background of the broader social and intellectual contexts of the times. Among the topics investigated are geography during the Age of Reconnaissance, the Scientific Revolution and The Englightenment; subsequently geography's relationships with Darwinism, imperialism, regionalism, and quantification are elaborated.

Author: David Livingstone
ISBN-10: 0631185860
ISBN-13: 9780631185864
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/04/1993
Pages: 444
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.96w x 0.98d
By David Livingstone
By David Livingstone
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David Livingstone is the author of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987), Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1987) and The Preadamite Theory (1992), and of many articles on the history of goegraphy and the history of science. He is Reader in the School of Geosciences, at the Queen's University of Belfast.

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