Europe and the British geographical imagination, 1760-1830 / Paul Stock.
| Author/creator |
Stock, Paul |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description | x, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History |
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| Contents | Introduction -- PART I: THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION -- Geographical texts -- Geographical knowledge -- PART II: THE IDEA OF EUROPE -- Religion -- The natural environment -- Human difference -- The state -- Borders -- Centres and peripheries -- Commerce and empire -- History and progress -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country?While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change.-- Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-322) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019949402 |
| ISBN | 9780198807117 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0198807112 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
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