Europe and the British geographical imagination, 1760-1830 / Paul Stock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stock, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Public opinion, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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.-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

PART I: THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION

Geographical texts

Geographical knowledge

PART II: THE IDEA OF EUROPE

Religion

The natural environment

Human difference

The state

Borders

Centres and peripheries

Commerce and empire

History and progress

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-184486-1

0-19-253386-X

0-19-253387-8