| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), charts |
| Series |
Collection Sociétés, espaces, temps, 1258-1135 |
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Collection Sociétés, espaces, temps.
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| Summary |
Cet ouvrage interroge le moment où, entre 1780 et 1860, la géographie se structure en champ scientifique et académique indépendant en Europe, et particulièrement en France, en Prusse et en Grande-Bretagne. Au même moment dans ces trois pays, des géographes travaillent à ce que leur champ d'étude soit enfin considéré comme une science à part entière. Ce processus de construction à la fois scientifique et disciplinaire est profondément marqué par l'héritage des Lumières et l'esprit universaliste, mais, parallèlement, il se trouve également influencé et informé par le contexte politique. Les savoirs géographiques sont en effet investis d'une valeur stratégique grandissante : ils jouent un rôle majeur dans les idéologies et actions politiques des États. Par le croisement de sources de différentes natures, par l'articulation d'une approche internaliste et externaliste, ce livre s'inscrit dans le champ du spatial turn. By examining a moment in the history of geography, this book straddles both disciplines. Its aim is to study a period, namely Europe between 1780 and 1860, where geography was gradually gaining the status of a fully-fledged scientific field in Europe, thanks to renewed institutional and academic principles, especially in France, Prussia and Great Britain. At the same time, geographers in these three European countries stove to have their field finally recognised as a proper science on a par, for instance, with history or mathematics. This scientific and academic development of a recognised geographical field was influenced by a universalistic spirit, a legacy of the European Enlightenment, but it was also deeply influenced by the political context. Between 1785 and 1860, geographical knowledge was recognised as strategic: it played a major role in national politics and, therefore, in the elaboration of the different policies developed in this period. This book is of interest, therefore, to geographers and historians or historians of science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Geography -- Europe -- History
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SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
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TRAVEL / Budget
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TRAVEL / Hikes & Walks
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TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
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TRAVEL / Parks & Campgrounds
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Geography
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Historical geography
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Historical geography
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9782847888201 |
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2847888209 |
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