Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh Dodds Dr Phil
Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh Dodds Dr Phil Edinburgh in the eighteenth century was one of the great cities of the Enlightenment. This book explores the processes by which the people of…
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Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh Dodds Dr Phil
Edinburgh in the eighteenth century was one of the great cities of the Enlightenment. This book explores the processes by which the people of Edinburgh came to understand and order their world and establish those scales of judgement through the acquisition of geographic knowledge. Its citizens were confident in setting standards by which other societies were to be judged.
Some of these people have left records of their own, and through them it is possible to see in intimate detail how this material was read and used. It uses the extraordinarily rich archive of one of the major Edinburgh booksellers toidentify not only the most popular books and cartographic materials of the time, but also the authors who produced them and the customers who bought them. Moving through widening spheres and different types of practical and intellectual geographical engagement, Dodds looks at the processes
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