Enlightenment Geography

ROBERT MAYHEW was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is currently a Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University.

'...a significant work of scholarship...' - Denis Cosgrove, Albion 'Mayhew provides us with a compelling genealogy of his subject.' - Colin Kidd, British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies '[Mayhew] provides an account of geographical thought that might be more recognisable to contemporaries...As a result, his book is consistently trenchant, focused and persuasive.' - David Armitage, Journal of Historical Geography

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Effacing and Recovering the History of Geography The Sphere of Geography and the Realm of Politics in Britain, c.1650-1850 'Geography is Twinned with Divinity': The Lauduan Geography of Peter Heylyn, 1621-57 John Ogilby and the Iconographic Roads to a Restored Royalist Geography, c.1660-75 The Political and Geographical Appropriations of Edmund Bohun, 1684-1710 Edmund Gibson's Edition of Britannia : Loyalist Chorography and the Politics of Precedent, 1695-1722 Varieties of Orthodox Geography, 1700-50: Three Vignettes: Echard, Wells and Salmon The Denominational Politics of Travel Writing: The Case of Tory Anglicans in the 1770s The Scottish Enlightenment and British Geography (I): Guthrie and Pinkerton, c.1770-1802 On the Cusp of Modern Geography: Fieldwork and Textuality in the Career of James Rennell, 1764-1830 The Scottish Enlightenment and British Geography (II): James Bell and J.P. McCulloch, 1830-50 Coda: Halford Mackinder and the Empire of 'New' Political Geography, c.1887-1919 Enlightenments and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Early Modern British Geography, c.1550-1850 Notes Bibliography Index