Geography And Revolution

by Livingstone, David N.; Withers, Charles W. J.

• ISBN13: 9780226487335
• ISBN10: 0226487334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

A term with myriad associations, revolutionis commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolutionexamines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutionsCopernican, Newtonian, and Darwinianordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutionsthe advent of print, time-keeping, and photographyemerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutionsin France, England, Germany, and the United Statesare notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolutionis an invitation to take the whereas seriously as the whoand the whenin examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.

Author Biography

David N. Livingstone is professor of geography and intellectual history at the Queen's University of Belfast. Charles W. J. Withers is professor of geography at the University of Edinburgh. The editors have collaborated previously on Geography and Enlightenment, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
On Geography and Revolution	1	(22)
David N. Livingstone
Charles W. J. Withers
PART I. GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: SPACE, PLACE, AND NATURAL KNOWLEDGE	23	(110)
Space, Revolution, and Science	27	(48)
Peter Dear
National Styles in Science
A Possible Factor in the Scientific Revolution?	43	(32)
John Henry
Geography, Science, and the Scientific Revolution	75	(58)
Charles W. J. Withers
Revolution of the Space Invaders
Darwin and Wallace on the Geography of Life	106	(27)
James Moore
PART II. GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNICAL REVOLUTION: TIME, SPACE, AND THE INSTRUMENTS OF TRANSMISSION	133	(106)
Printing the Map, Making a Difference
Mapping the Cape of Good Hope, 1488--1652	137	(23)
Jerry Brotton
Revolutions in the Times
Clocks and the Temporal Structures of Everyday Life	160	(39)
Paul Glennie
Nigel Thrift
Photography, Visual Revolutions, and Victorian Geography	199	(40)
James R. Ryan
PART III. GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL REVOLUTION: GEOGRAPHY AND STATE GOVERNANCE	239	(112)
Geography's English Revolutions
Oxford Geography and the War of Ideas, 1600--1660	243	(30)
Robert J. Mayhew
Edme Mentelle's Geographies and the French Revolution	273	(78)
Michael Heffernan
``Risen into Empire''
Moral Geographies of the American Republic	304	(32)
David N. Livingstone
Alexander von Humboldt and Revolution
A Geography of Reception of the Varnhagen von Ense Correspondence	336	(15)
Nicolaas Rupke
Afterword: Revolutions and Their Geographies	351	(12)
Peter Burke
Contributors	363	(4)
Bibliography	367	(50)
Index	417