Charles Withers

Geography and science in Britain, 1831-1939

A study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the history and geography of science and the science of geography in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain and the British Empire. In considering the history and geography of the Association and of geography in local, national and imperial contexts, the book makes an important inter-disciplinary contribution to the history and geography of science and to the civic history of geography. Attention is paid to the Association's workings, to geography as a civic science in Britain and overseas and to the connections between education and citizenship in a period of interwar "crisis" for geography and for science. This volume will greatly extend the knowledge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as a leading body for the promotion of science as a public good and will engage social and cultural historians, historians of science and of empire and those with interests in disciplinary history, notably historians of geography.

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Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography's civic history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780719079764
• ISBN-10: 0719079764
• Artikelnr.: 32465549

Autorenporträt

Charles W. J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: histories and geographies of science 2. Geographies of
civic science: the British Association at work 3. The science of geography
in the British Association 4. The dominion of science and geographies of
empire: the BAAS overseas 1884-1929 5. Hierarchy, distribution, connection:
geography as a science of the physical world 6. Measurement, exploration
and ethnology: geography and the human sciences 7. Science, education and
the 'crisis' in geography, 1910-c.1939 8. Conclusion: the British
Association, geographies of science and the science of geography
Bibliography Index