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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.
Trade Review"
The Geographic Imagination is a brilliant study on the epochal change around 1800 that offers new insights into the spatial and geographical premises of nineteenth-century history and historicism. Tang's original propositions have far-reaching consequences for our knowledge of the human sciences in that period." -- Joseph Vogl * Humboldt University of Berlin *
"This clear and compelling volume investigates the rise of geographic thought in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through a variety of discourses ....
The Geographic Imagination of Modernity is an outstanding study that generates new and important insights into the period around 1800. It must be noted, too, that Tang accomplishes this with a lucid and engaging prose style." -- Brian Tucker *
Monatshefte *
"This work attempts reconstruction of geographical science with special reference to German Romanticism. It derives validation particularly from the work of Humboldt and Ritter and from the conceptualization of Clarence Glaken, who maintained that 1800 was both terminus and commencement for two distinctive sets of thought concerning humankind, the Earth, and its progress. An imaginative, well-composed, and thought-provoking work intended for specialists." --
CHOICETable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xxx Acknowledgments xxx Introduction 000 Part One The Emergence of Modern Geography 000 Chapter 1 The Reorganization of Geographic Knowledge around 1800 000 Chapter 2 The Aesthetic Origin of Modern Geography 000 Chapter 3 The Philosophical Origin of Modern Geography 000 Part Two Between Man and the Earth 000 Chapter 4 Orientation: Figurations of Oriented Space 000 Chapter 5 Dwelling in Space: Figurations of Cultural Landscape 000 Chapter 6 Dwelling in Time: Figurations of Geohistory 000 Epilogue 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
