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Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason
The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many as...
Scotland Since 1520
Charles Withers' book brings together work on the history of geography and the history of science with extensive archival analysis to explore how geog...
The Geographical History of a Language
Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area...
The Transformation of a Culture Region
This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformatio...
Geographies of the Prime Meridian
Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian...
Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 27
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Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors....
The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spat...
Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemol...
Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger
One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical...
The Atlas contains 49 maps, many of them based on the original survey of Timothy Pont who toured the realm in the 1590s, during the reign of James VI,...
Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900
This text offers a full-scale examination of the out-movement of migrant Highlanders from the Highlands to the urban Lowlands in the 18th and 19th cen...
A Study in the Social History of Migrant Highlanders
A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
This book examines the history and geography of science and the science of geography in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain and the Britis...
Volume 34 biobibliographical studies
"Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly engagement with t...
Biobibliographical Studies
Volume 33 biobibliographical studies
"Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies...
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 28
The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series Volume 28 includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, Charles P. Daly, long-serving p...
Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 26
"This twenty-sixth volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together essays on leading figures in time geography and regional theory, ...
Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 31
Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work. With its publication, ...
Mapping the Islands
As miniature worlds, beautiful locations and homes to communities seemingly distant from the stresses of modern life, Scotland's many islands have an ...
The Decline of Gaelic in Northern Scotland, 1698-1901