Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650–1850

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Effacing and Recovering the History of Geography....Pages 1-22
The Sphere of Geography and the Realm of Politics in Britain, c.1650–1850....Pages 23-48
‘Geography is twinned with divinity’: the Laudian Geography of Peter Heylyn, 1621–57....Pages 49-65
John Ogilby and the Iconographic Roads to a Restored Royalist Geography, c.1660–75....Pages 66-85
The Political and Geographical Appropriations of Edmund Bohun, 1684–1710....Pages 86-99
Edmund Gibson’s Editions of Britannia: Loyalist Chorography and the Particularist Politics of Precedent, 1695–1722....Pages 100-121
Varieties of Orthodox Geography, 1700–50: Three Vignettes: Echard, Wells and Salmon....Pages 122-140
The Denominational Politics of Travel-Writing: the Case of Tory Anglicans in the 1770s....Pages 141-167
The Scottish Enlightenment and British Geography (I): Guthrie and Pinkerton, c.1770–1802....Pages 168-192
On the Cusp of Modern Geography: Fieldwork and Textuality in the Career of James Rennell, 1764–1830....Pages 193-206
The Scottish Enlightenment and British Geography (II): James Bell and J.R. McCulloch, 1830–50....Pages 207-228
Coda: Halford Mackinder and the Empire of ‘New’ Political Geography, c.1887–1919....Pages 229-245
Enlightenments and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Early-Modern British Geography, c.1550–c.1850....Pages 246-257
Back Matter....Pages 258-324