Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Universal Geography
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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A New and Easy Introduction to Universal Geography ... The fifth edition, considerably enlarged
Author: Richard TURNER (LL.D., the Younger.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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A New, Royal, and Authentic System of Universal Geography
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Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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A New, Royal, and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern
Author: Thomas Bankes
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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The Earth and Its Inhabitants
Author: Elisée Reclus
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Romantic Geography
Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299296830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299296830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
Author: Paul Stock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192533878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192533878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
The Universal Geography
Author: Elisée Reclus
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Systematic catalogue of books [With] Suppl. of books
Author: Mercantile library assoc New York
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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