Geography Unbound
French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt
451 pages, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings 6 x 9
©
1999
Cloth $86.00
ISBN: 9780226300467
Published January 1999
Paper $35.00
ISBN: 9780226300474
Published January 2000
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Geography's Crisis
One: The Nature of Eighteenth-Century Geography: Cartographic and Textual Description
Two: Geography's Loss of Direction and Status
Part Two: Reaction and Continuity
Three: Universal Description
Four: The Powerful Mapping Metaphor
Five: Handmaiden to Power
Part Three: Innovation on the Margins
Six: Explaining the Social Realm
Seven: Innovation in Natural Geography
Eight: Tough-Minded Historical Geography
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
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