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RichardOliver, The Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century: maps, money and the growth of government (London: The Charles Close Society, 2014. Pp. xxvii+607. 75 figs. 33 illus. ISBN 9781870598323 Hbk. £45.00)
In: The economic history review, Band 69, Heft 2, S. 717-718
ISSN: 1468-0289
Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France
This essay considers the politics and patronage of geography in early-modern France. It examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, widely acknowledged as the 18th century's pre-eminent scientific society, came to recognise geography as an independent science in 1730, a century before the establishment of the first geographical societies. Although the Academy was centrally concerned with cartography from its inception in 1666, it initially afforded no official status to geography, which was viewed either as a specialised form of historical inquiry or as a minor component within the hegemonic science of astronomy. The rise of Newtonian mathematics and the associated controversy about the shape of the earth challenged the Academy's epistemological foundations and prompted a debate about the educational and political significance of geography as a scientific practice. The death in 1726 of Guillaume Delisle, a prominent Academy astronomer-cartographer and a popular geography tutor to the young Louis XV, led to a spirited campaign to elect Philippe Buache, Delisle's protégé, to a new Academy position as a geographer rather than an astronomer. The campaign emphasised the social and political utility of geography, though the Academy's decision to recognise this new and distinctively modern science was ultimately facilitated by traditional networks of patronage within the French Royal Court. © 2013 The Author. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers © 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
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Geography, empire and National Revolution in Vichy France
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 731-758
ISSN: 0962-6298
The End of Atlanticism: Habermas, Derrida and the Meaning of Europe in the Twenty-first Century
In: Geopolitics, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 570-575
ISSN: 1557-3028
Geography, empire and National Revolution in Vichy France
In: Political geography, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 731-758
ISSN: 0962-6298
History, Geography and the French National Space: The Question of Alsace‐Lorraine, 1914‐18
In: Space & polity, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 27-48
ISSN: 1470-1235
Balancing visions: comments on Gearoid O'Tuathail's critical geopolitics
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 347-352
ISSN: 0962-6298
Land, food and rural development in North Africa
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 326-327
ISSN: 0264-8377
On geography and progress: Turgot's plan d'un ouvrage sur la géographie politique (1751) and the origins of modern progressive thought
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 328-343
ISSN: 0962-6298
On geography and progress: Turgot's Plan d'un ouvrage sur la géographie politique (1751) and the origins of modern progressive thought
In: Political geography, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 328-343
ISSN: 0962-6298
Edme Mentelle's Geographies and the French Revolution
In: Geography and Revolution, S. 273-303
From Geostrategy to Geo-Economics
In: Central Asia in International Relations, S. 91-114
Degrees of influence: the politics of honorary degrees in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1900-2000
This article was published in the journal, Minerva [© Springer] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-007-9065-8 ; The universities of Oxford and Cambridge had developed different attitudes towards the award of honorary degrees through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Recently, both have adopted a similar cautious and apolitical stance. This essay describes the role of honorary degrees in the production and reproduction of their cultural and intellectual authority of these two ancient universities.
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From geo-strategy to geo-economics: the 'Heartland' and British imperialism before and after MacKinder
In: Geopolitics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 54-73
ISSN: 1465-0045
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