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Europe and the British geographical imagination, 1760-1830

Stock, Paul, author

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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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Europe Foreign public opinion, British. / Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century. / Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780198807117, 0198807112

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D34.G7 S76 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE