The geographical tradition : episodes in the history of a contested enterprise /
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Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA :
Blackwell,
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Should the history of geography be X-rated? : telling geography's story
- Of myths and maps : geography in the Age of Reconnaissance
- Revolution, celestial and terrestrial : geography and the Scientific Revolution
- Naturalists and navigators : geography in the Enlightenment
- Of design and dining clubs : pre-Darwinian geography
- The geographical experiment : evolution and the founding of a discipline
- A 'sternly practical' pursuit : geography, race and empire
- The regionalizing ritual : geography, place and particularity
- Statistics don't bleed : quantification and its detractors
- The geographical tradition : a conversational conclusion.