Charting an empire : geography at the English universities, 1580-1620
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Charting an empire : geography at the English universities, 1580-1620
University of Chicago Press, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 249-270
Includes index
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: cloth ISBN 9780226116068
内容説明
How did early modern England - an island nation on the periphery of world affairs - transform itself into the centre of a worldwide empire? The author of this work argues that the newly-institutionalized study of geography played a crucial role in fuelling England's imperial ambitions. Cormack demonstrates that geography was part of the arts curriculum between 1580 and 1620, read at university by a broad range of emerging political, economic, and religious leaders. By teaching these young Englishmen to view their country in a global context, and to see England playing a major role on that stage, geography supplied a set of shared assumptions about the feasibility and desirability of an English empire. Thus, the study of geography helped create an ideology of empire that made possible the actual forays of the next century. Geography emerges in Cormack's account as the fruitful ground between college and court, in whose well-prepared soil the seeds of English imperialism took root.
目次
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Charting an Empire 1: Geography and the Changing Face of the English University 2: The Social Context of Geography 3: Mathematical Geography: Theory at Practice 4: Descriptive Geography: Tales of Prester John and of the Palace of Edo 5: Chorography: Geography Writ Small 6: The Patronage of Patriotism: The "Third University" of London Conclusion: Geography and the Idea of Empire App. A: Sources for Book List App. B: Geography Books Owned by Students, Fellows, and Libraries of Selected Colleges Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226116075
内容説明
How did early modern England - an island nation on the periphery of world affairs - transform itself into the centre of a worldwide empire? The author of this work argues that the newly institutionalized study of geography played a crucial role in fuelling England's imperial ambitions. Cormack demonstrates that geography was part of the arts curriculum between 1580 and 1620, read at university by a broad range of emerging political, economic, and religious leaders. By teaching these young Englishmen to view their country in a global context, and to see England playing a major role on that stage, geography supplied a set of shared assumptions about the feasibility and desirability of an English empire. Thus, the study of geography helped create an ideology of empire that made possible the actual forays of the next century. Geography emerges in Cormack's account as the fruitful ground between college and court, in whose well-prepared soil the seeds of English imperialism took root.
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