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1 online resource (viii, 433 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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On geography and revolution / David N. Livingstone, Charles W.J. Withers -- Space, revolution, and science / Peter Dear -- National styles in science: a possible factor in the scientific revolution? / John Henry -- Geography, science, and the scientific revolution / Charles W.J. Withers -- Revolution of the space invaders: Darwin and Wallace on the geography of life / James Moore -- Printing the map, making a difference: mapping the Cape of Good Hope, 1488-1652 / Jerry Brotton -- Revolutions in the times: clocks and the temporal structures of everyday life / Paul Glennie, Nigel Thrift -- Photography, visual revolutions, and Victorian geography / James R. Ryan -- Geography's English revolutions: Oxford geography and the war of ideas, 1600-1660 / Robert J. Mayhew -- Edme Mentelle's geographies and the French revolution / Michael Heffernan -- "Risen into empire": moral geographies of the American republic / David N. Livingstone -- Alexander von Humboldt and revolution: a geography of reception of the Varnhagen von Ense correspondence / Nicolaas Rupke -- Afterward: revolutions and their geographies / Peter Burke. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-416) and index. |
| Summary |
"A term with myriad associations, "revolution" is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations.". "David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutions - Copernican, Newtonian, and Darwinian - ordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutions - the advent of print, time-keeping, and photography - emerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutions - in France, England, Germany, and the United States - are notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Geography -- Philosophy.
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Geography -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Discoveries in science.
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Discoveries in science. |
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Revolutions -- Philosophy.
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Revolutions -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Livingstone, David N., 1953-
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Withers, Charles W. J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geography and revolution. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005 9780226487335 (DLC) 2005003443 (OCoLC)57652331 |
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9780226487359 (electronic book) |
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0226487350 (electronic book) |
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9780226487335 (alkaline paper) |
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0226487334 (alkaline paper) |
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0226487334 (alkaline paper) |
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