Studies in Historical Geography – serie
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Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
Häftad, 2019
733 kr
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Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped – both materially and imaginatively – by parliamentary enclosure and …
Place and the Scene of Literary Practice
Häftad, 2019
793 kr
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The act of writing is intimately bound up with the flow and eddy of a writer’s being-within-the-world; the everyday practices, encounters and networks of social life. Exploring the geographies of literary practice in the period 1840-1910, this book takes as its focus the work, or craft, of …
Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago another mapping revolution was in motion. Women’s lives were in motion: they were playing a greater role in public on a variety of fronts. As women became more mobile (physically, socially, politically), …
Impure and Worldly Geography
Pierre Gourou and Tropicality
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy.This book explores this …
Geography of the Ocean
Knowing the ocean as a space
Häftad, 2018
814 kr
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Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad conceptual and methodological framework to analyse …
Spaces of Global Knowledge
Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire
Av Diarmid A. Finnegan, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
Häftad, 2018
844 kr
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’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose …
Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education
Häftad, 2018
770 kr
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From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. …
Geography of the Ocean
Knowing the ocean as a space
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad conceptual and methodological framework to analyse …
Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. …
Impure and Worldly Geography
Pierre Gourou and Tropicality
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy.This book explores this …
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 offers a detailed study of elite women’s relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical …
Place and the Scene of Literary Practice
Inbunden, 2017
2879 kr
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The act of writing is intimately bound up with the flow and eddy of a writer’s being-within-the-world; the everyday practices, encounters and networks of social life. Exploring the geographies of literary practice in the period 1840-1910, this book takes as its focus the work, or craft, of …
Spaces of Global Knowledge
Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire
Av Diarmid A. Finnegan, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose …
Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago another mapping revolution was in motion. Women’s lives were in motion: they were playing a greater role in public on a variety of fronts. As women became more mobile (physically, socially, politically), …
