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Geography and Revolution.
Title:
Geography and Revolution.
Author:
Livingstone, David N.
ISBN:
9780226487359
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (442 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. On Geography and Revolution -- Part I. Geography and Scientific Revolution: Space, Place, and Natural Knowledge -- 2. Space, Revolution, and Science -- 3. National Styles in Science -- 4. Geography, Science, and the Scientific Revolution -- 5. Revolution of the Space Invaders -- Part II. Geography and Technical Revolution: Time, Space, and the Instruments of Transmission -- 6. Printing the Map, Making a Difference -- 7. Revolutions in the Times -- 8. Photography, Visual Revolutions, and Victorian Geography -- Part III. Geography and Political Revolution: Geography and State Governance -- 9. Geography's English Revolutions -- 10. Edme Mentelle's Geographies and The French Revolution -- 11. "Risen into Empire" -- 12. Alexander von Humboldt and Revolution -- Afterword: Revolutions and Their Geographies -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolution is an invitation to take the where as seriously as the who and the when in examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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