Geography and revolution / edited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livingstone, David N., 1953-

Withers, Charles W. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography--Philosophy.

Geography.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Discoveries in science.

Revolutions--Philosophy.

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A term with myriad associations, revolution is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutions-Copernican, Newtonian, and Darwinian-ordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutions-the advent of print, time-keeping, and photography-emerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutions-in France, England, Germany, and the United States-are notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolution is an invitation to take the where as seriously as the who and the when in examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.

Contents:

On geography and revolution / David N. Livingstone, Charles W.J. Withers

Space, revolution, and science / Peter Dear

National styles in science: a possible factor in the scientific revolution? / John Henry

Geography, science, and the scientific revolution / Charles W.J. Withers

Revolution of the space invaders: Darwin and Wallace on the geography of life / James Moore

Printing the map, making a difference: mapping the Cape of Good Hope, 1488-1652 / Jerry Brotton

Revolutions in the times: clocks and the temporal structures of everyday life / Paul Glennie, Nigel Thrift

Photography, visual revolutions, and Victorian geography / James R. Ryan

Geography's English revolutions: Oxford geography and the war of ideas, 1600-1660 / Robert J. Mayhew

Edme Mentelle's geographies and the French revolution / Michael Heffernan

"Risen into empire": moral geographies of the American republic / David N. Livingstone

Alexander von Humboldt and revolution: a geography of reception of the Varnhagen von Ense correspondence / Nicolaas Rupke

Afterward: revolutions and their geographies / Peter Burke.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-416) and index.

ISBN:

9786612738456

9781282738454

1282738453

9780226487359

0226487350

OCLC:

655848221