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Scotland since 1520
By Charles W. J. Withers

"Geography, science, and national identity" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001 - Cambridge, it has 310 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Geography, science, and national identity” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Geography, science, and national identity
- Author: Charles W. J. Withers
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 310
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: 2001
- Publish Location: Cambridge
“Geography, science, and national identity” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Geography - Historical geography - History - Intellectual life - Nationalism - Science - Scottish National characteristics - National characteristics, scottish - Nationalism, scotland - Scotland, intellectual life - Scotland, history - Geography, history - Science, history
- Places: Scotland
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xvii, 310 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL3943819M - OL4623184W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 46473938
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2001025556
- ISBN-10: 0521642027
- All ISBNs: 0521642027
AI-generated Review of “Geography, science, and national identity”:
"Geography, science, and national identity" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: geography, science and historical geographies of
- 2- knowledge
- 3- New histories of geography and of geographical knowledge
- 4- The social and situated nature of scientific knowledge
- 5- Towards a historical geography of geographical knowledge
- 6- 2 Geography, identity and the making of the nation, 1520-1682
- 7- Geographical knowledge and national identity in early moder
- 8- Europe
- 9- 'Writing Scotland': historical traditions, chorography and national
- 10- identity
- 11- 'Knowing one's bounds': Timothy Pont's chorographical survey of
- 12- Scotland
- 13- Theories of empire and 'Greater Britain': the Union of 1603 as a
- 14- geographical problem
- 15- Symbolising identity: Scotland and Britain display'd, 1604-1661
- 16- 3 Geography, credibility and national knowledge, 1682-1707
- 17- Sibbald's geographies: the production of credible geographical
- 18- knowledge
- 19- Competing geographies, testing credibility
- 20- Sites of knowledge and the public engagement with geography
- 21- Scotland's imperial geographical imagination: empire, union and
- 22- the Darien scheme
- 23- 4 Geography, Enlightenment and the public sphere, 1707-c.1830
- 24- Geography in the Enlightenment: a partial survey
- 25- Geography's public, 1708-1830
- 26- Teaching places: geography in Scottish schools and universities,
- 27- 1727-1821
- 28- 'Visualising the nation': survey, geographical knowledge and
- 29- national identity
- 30- 5 National identity, geographical knowledge and civic enterprise,
- 31- c.1830-1884
- 32- Geography and the public sphere, c. 1830-1860: polite learning
- 33- and civic improvement
- 34- Historical geographies of schools and texts, 1838-1884
- 35- Historical geographies of local natural knowledge: field clubs
- 36- and natural history societies, 1831-1887
- 37- 6 Geography and national identity in an age of high empire,
- 38- 1884-1930
- 39- Institutionalising the subject
- 40- Science and the nature of national survey
- 41- Patrick Geddes, geographical visions and the 'Temple of
- 42- Geography'
- 43- 7 Conclusion: A historical geography of geographical knowledge
- 44- Making the nation, making geography: Scotland's geographical
- 45- constitution
- 46- National identity and geographical practice
- 47- Sites and audiences
- 48- Historical geographies of knowledge
- 49- Appendix Principal respondents to Sir Robert Sibbald's
- 50- geographical queries
- 51- Bibliography
- 52- Index.
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