Tauris Historical Geographical Series – serie
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32 produkter
Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Häftad, 2019
516 kr
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Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series …
New Spaces of Exploration
Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
Av Simon Naylor, James R. Ryan
E-bok, 2009
424 kr
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For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration" challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the …
Scriptural Geography
Portraying the Holy Land
E-bok, 2009
534 kr
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For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe - it was an idea, an intellectual and moral space charged with the heat of debate between those trying to understand the religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time. Edwin Aiken explores the various ways in …
Zambesi
David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa
E-bok, 2010
546 kr
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"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - …
Bringing Geography to Book
Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge
E-bok, 2010
1926 kr
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Ellen Semple's 'Influences of Geographic Environment' (1911) - a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism - coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academic discipline in North America and Britain. Highly controversial and written by one of America's …
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science
Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England
E-bok, 2010
519 kr
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Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences …
Dead Sea Level
Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East
Av Haim Goren
E-bok, 2011
2247 kr
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In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other as a potentially faster route to India. This is the traditional explanation for the presence of the international …
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed
Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
E-bok, 2011
551 kr
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Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how …
Mapping the Holy Land
The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine
Av Bruno Schelhaas, Jutta Faehndrich m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
2041 kr
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Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology …
Mapping the Holy Land
The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine
Av Bruno Schelhaas, Jutta Faehndrich m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1982 kr
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Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles …
New Spaces of Exploration
Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
Av Simon Naylor, James R. Ryan
E-bok, 2009
424 kr
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For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration" challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the …
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed
Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
E-bok, 2011
546 kr
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Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how …
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed
Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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Botanical gardens brought together the great diversity of the Earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Through a study of three botanical gardens, belonging to the …
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science
Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England
Häftad, 2020
489 kr
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Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. Enlightenment, Modernity and Science provides the first full length study of the geographies of Georgian scientific …
Zambesi
David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - …
Scriptural Geography
Portraying the Holy Land
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe, it was an idea, an intellectual and a moral space charged with the heat of debate between those trying to understand the religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time. Edwin Aiken explores the various ways in …
Geography and the Classical World
Unearthing Historical Geography's Forgotten Past
Häftad, 2020
487 kr
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In the eighteenth century a new subject emerged that was to capture the interest and imagination of scholars and the educated public for the next 150 years. Called 'ancient geography' or 'classical geography', its focus was the geographical study of the ancient Mediterranean, in particular the …
Geography and the Classical World
Unearthing Historical Geography's Forgotten Past
Inbunden, 2013
2051 kr
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In the eighteenth century a new subject emerged that was to capture the interest and imagination of scholars and the educated public for the next 150 years. Called 'ancient geography' or 'classical geography', its focus was the geographical study of the ancient Mediterranean, in particular the …
Mapping the Holy Land
The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine
Av Bruno Schelhaas, Jutta Faehndrich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1905 kr
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Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology …
Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Inbunden, 2017
2051 kr
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Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series …
Idea of Central Europe
Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity
Av Otilia Dhand
Inbunden, 2018
1394 kr
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Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia …
Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
E-bok, 2017
562 kr
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Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series …
Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
E-bok, 2017
562 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series …
Idea of Central Europe
Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity
Av Otilia Dhand
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
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Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia …
Idea of Central Europe
Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity
Av Otilia Dhand
E-bok, 2018
534 kr
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Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia …
Idea of Central Europe
Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity
Av Otilia Dhand
E-bok, 2018
528 kr
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Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia …
Zambesi
David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa
Inbunden, 2010
1994 kr
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"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - …
Scriptural Geography
Portraying the Holy Land
Inbunden, 2009
1905 kr
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For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe - it was an idea, an intellectual and moral space charged with the heat of debate between those trying to understand the religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time. Edwin Aiken explores the various ways in …
New Spaces of Exploration
Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
Av Simon Naylor, James R. Ryan
Häftad, 2009
390 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration" challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the …
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science
Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England
Inbunden, 2010
1985 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences …
