Europe and the British geographical imagination, 1760-1830

The Resource Europe and the British geographical imagination, 1760-1830

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Europe and the British geographical imagination, 1760-1830

Statement of responsibility

Paul Stock

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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Publisher's website

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

303.48/24104

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D34.G7

LC item number

S76 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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