Geography and imperialism, 1820-1940
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Geography and imperialism, 1820-1940
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press , Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1995
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work examines the ways in which European imperialism was facilitated and challenged during the period 1820 to 1920. It adds to current multi-disciplinary debates on the complex cultural, ideological and intellectual bases of European imperial conquests and colonizations by reference to geographical science. The authors examine maps and surveys, exploration and travel, the activities and debates of metropolitan and provincial geographical societies and a range of written and visual representations. The use of geographical knowledge as a tool of imperial propaganda is evaluated, together with its contribution to imperial debates on race, environmental perception and management. The book explores imperial photography, the cartography of decolonization and environmental management and conservation in the British Empire. The work of societies such as the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Dutch Geographical Society and the Societe de Geographie de Paris is evaluated.
Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- general editor's introduction
- notes on contributors
- introduction, Morag Bell et al
- agents and agencies in geography and empire - the case of George Grey, James M.R. Cameron
- imperialism and the discourse of desiccation
- the institutionalisation of global environmental concerns and the role of the Royal Geographical Society, 1860-1880, Richard Grove
- imperial landscapes - photography, geography and British exploration, 1858-1872, James R. Ryan
- the Royal Dutch Geographical Society and the Dutch East Indies, 1873-1914, Paul van der Velde
- the provincial geographical societies in Britain, 1884-1914, John M. MacKenzie
- "The Mother of all the Peoples" - geographical knowledge and the empowering of Mary Slessor, Cheryl McEwan
- historical geographies of empire, Robin A. Butlin
- "Citizenship not charity" - Violet Markham on nature, society and the state in Britain and South Africa, Morag Bell
- the spoils of war - the societe de geographie de Paris and the French empire, 1916-1919, Michael J. Heffernan
- geopolitics, cartography and geographical knowledge - envisioning Africa from Italy, David Atkinson
- the cartography of colonialism and decolonialism - the case of Swaziland, Jeffrey C. Stone.
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