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The Geographical Tradition:

Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise
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Wiley, 1992 - Science - 434 pages
The Geographical Tradition presents the history of an essentially contested tradition. By examining a series of key episodes in geography's history since 1400, Livingstone argues that the messy contingencies of history are to be preferred to the manufactured idealizations of the standard chronicles. Throughout, the development of geographical thought and practice is portrayed against the background of the broader social and intellectual contexts of the times. Among the topics investigated are geography during the Age of Reconnaissance, the Scientific Revolution and The Englightenment; subsequently geography's relationships with Darwinism, imperialism, regionalism, and quantification are elaborated.

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I have a love-hate relationship with this book. If you are going to read it or have to read it, do yourself a favour and read the first chapter first. Read full review

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A good outline of the field of geography concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries. I especially enjoyed learning about how Larmarkism/Darwinism are tied to geography and seeing how the field ...

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About the author (1992)

David Livingstone is the author of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987), Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1987) and The Preadamite Theory (1992), and of many articles on the history of goegraphy and the history of science. He is Reader in the School of Geosciences, at the Queen's University of Belfast.

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TitleThe Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise
Human and urban geography
AuthorDavid Livingstone
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherWiley, 1992
ISBN0631185860, 9780631185864
Length434 pages
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Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
Social Science / Human Geography
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