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Geography, Science and National Identity: Scotland since 1520(Series Number 33 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)

Geography, Science and National Identity: Scotland since 1520(Series Number 33 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)


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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 used to shape an understanding of the nation. Using Scotland as an exemplar, the author places geographical knowledge in its wider intellectual context to afford insights into perspectives of empire, national identity and the geographies of science. In so doing, he advances a new area of geographical enquiry, the historical geography of geographical knowledge, and demonstrates how and why different forms of geographical knowledge have been used in the past to constitute national identity, and where those forms were constructed and received. The book will make an important contribution to the study of nationhood and empire and will therefore interest historians, as well as students of historical geography and historians of science. It is theoretically engaging, empirically rich and beautifully illustrated.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: geography, science and historical geographies of knowledge; 2. Geography, identity and the making of the nation, 1520–1682; 3. Geography, credibility and national knowledge, 1682–1707; 4. Geography, enlightenment and the public sphere, 1707–c.1830; 5. National identity, geographical knowledge and civic enterprise, c.1830–84; 6. Geography and national identity in an age of High Empire, 1884–1930; 7. Conclusion: a historical geography of geographical knowledge; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
Charles W. J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Recent publications include Geography and Enlightenment (1999), co-edited with David Livingstone.

Review :
'As a contribution to the analysis of nationality it is scarcely less important than George Davie's The Democratic Intellect.' Christopher Harvie, H-Albion '... a multifaceted and challenging view of Scottish intellectual and cultural history.' British Journal for the History of Science ' ... an absorbing excursion into intellectual and social history.' Landscape History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521024822
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 332
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Series Number 33 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
  • Sub Title: Scotland since 1520
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 052102482X
  • Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 539 gr


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