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

Livingstone, David

ISBN 10: 0631185860 / ISBN 13: 9780631185864

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631185860
• ISBN 13: 9780631185864
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.