Robert J Mayhew.

Robert J Mayhew. Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850 (Studies in new History.) New York: Palgrave. 2000 Pp viii, 324 $6500 ISBN 0-312-23475-9

The humanist aphorism historiae oculus geographia, which characterized geography's propadeutic part in humanist education during the sum of two units centuries examined in Enlightenment Geography, is neatly inverted in this fine thought of British geographical texts between 1650 and 1850 For Robert Mayhew, history is a way of understanding the changing nature of geography in the years between the

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