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 co...

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1. Verfasser:	Stock, Paul ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Karte
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1760-1830 Geografie Europabild Großbritannien Europe / Foreign public opinion, British Great Britain / Intellectual life / 18th century Great Britain / Intellectual life / 19th century Intellectual life Public opinion, British Europe Great Britain Society 1700-1899
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Zusammenfassung:	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.--
Beschreibung:	xi, 330 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9780198807117