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Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850. (Reviews of Books).
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Robert J. Mayhew. Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850. (Studies in Modern History.) New York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. viii, 324. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-23475-9.
The humanist aphorism historiae oculus geographia, which characterized geography's propadeutic role in humanist education during the two centuries examined in Enlightenment Geography, is neatly inverted in this fine study of British geographical texts between 1650 and 1850. For Robert Mayhew, history is a way of understanding the changing nature of geography in the years between the ...
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