An edition of Geography, Science and National Identity
(2001)
Geography, science, and national identity
Scotland since 1520
by Charles W. J. Withers
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Geography, Science and National Identity: Scotland since 1520 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: geography, science and historical geographies of
knowledge
New histories of geography and of geographical knowledge
The social and situated nature of scientific knowledge
Towards a historical geography of geographical knowledge
2 Geography, identity and the making of the nation, 1520-1682
Geographical knowledge and national identity in early moder
Europe
'Writing Scotland': historical traditions, chorography and national
identity
'Knowing one's bounds': Timothy Pont's chorographical survey of
Scotland
Theories of empire and 'Greater Britain': the Union of 1603 as a
geographical problem
Symbolising identity: Scotland and Britain display'd, 1604-1661
3 Geography, credibility and national knowledge, 1682-1707
Sibbald's geographies: the production of credible geographical
knowledge
Competing geographies, testing credibility
Sites of knowledge and the public engagement with geography
Scotland's imperial geographical imagination: empire, union and
the Darien scheme
4 Geography, Enlightenment and the public sphere, 1707-c.1830
Geography in the Enlightenment: a partial survey
Geography's public, 1708-1830
Teaching places: geography in Scottish schools and universities,
1727-1821
'Visualising the nation': survey, geographical knowledge and
national identity
5 National identity, geographical knowledge and civic enterprise,
c.1830-1884
Geography and the public sphere, c. 1830-1860: polite learning
and civic improvement
Historical geographies of schools and texts, 1838-1884
Historical geographies of local natural knowledge: field clubs
and natural history societies, 1831-1887
6 Geography and national identity in an age of high empire,
1884-1930
Institutionalising the subject
Science and the nature of national survey
Patrick Geddes, geographical visions and the 'Temple of
Geography'
7 Conclusion: A historical geography of geographical knowledge
Making the nation, making geography: Scotland's geographical
constitution
National identity and geographical practice
Sites and audiences
Historical geographies of knowledge
Appendix Principal respondents to Sir Robert Sibbald's
geographical queries
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and index.
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