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Book Title:Geography and the Classical World
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Author:William A. Koelsch
Publication Name:Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography’s Forgotten Past
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Language:English
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Subject:History
Publication Year:2020
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Item Weight:662 g
Number of Pages:480 Pages

Geography and the Classical World by William A. Koelsch Originally published: London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the eighteenth century a new subject emerged that was to capture the interest and imagination of scholars and the educated public for the next 150 years. Called ancient geography or classical geography, its focus was the geographical study of the ancient Mediterranean, in particular the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Geographers, explorers, classicists and historians all contributed to its rise, as it flourished in both Britain and America. Yet in the 1920s the subject began to decline, so that its story has been lost. This pioneering volume is the first full-length study to explore the emergence of classical geography and its role in both the geographical and classical traditions. The author begins with the expeditions sponsored or undertaken by the members of the Society of Dilettanti in the second half of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries. Expeditions by such figures as Richard Chandler, James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, Sir William Gell, Robert Wood and William Martin Leake, marked a new and more serious study of Greek and Near Eastern landscapes.At the same time, in post-Revolutionary America the Founding Fathers felt it important that Americans should know something of the history and geography of the ancient world, and leading figures such as Thomas Jefferson – a lifelong reader of the classics and a founding father of American geography – and Benjamin Franklin, ensured that classical geography became part of both the school and university curriculum. Professor Koelsch gives equal prominence to the story as it unfolded in both Britain and America. He explores the impact and influence of key figures and institutions over a period of almost two centuries. They range from William Ramsay, Edward Herbert Bunbury, John Linton Myres, Henry Fanshawe Tozer, William Gladstone, Edward Augustus Freeman, and Halford Mackinder in England, to Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, Ellen Semple, and John Kirtland Wright in America.The author relates the part that classical geography played in the rise of British geography, through the Oxford School of geography, and in the story of the early American institutions such as the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, Harvard University, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) as well as later universities such as the University of California, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago. In recovering the trajectory of classical geography from its adventurous beginnings, through its heyday and later decline, the author restores this almost forgotten part of the geographical and classical tradition. The result is a work of outstanding scholarship that will interest historical geographers, classicists, historians and all students of the classical tradition. Author Biography William A. Koelsch is Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, USA. His research centres around the history of geography and especially on the relations between geography and the classics in Britain and the United States. Table of Contents I Introduction: the Search for a SourceChapter 1 – The Society of Dilettanti and Ancient GeographyChapter 2 – Classical Geography in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary American CollegeChapter 3 – Classical Geography in Thomas Jeffersons UniversityChapter 4 – From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of ProfessionalizationChapter 5 – William E. Gladstone and the Reconstruction of Bronze Age GeographyChapter 6 – British Historians, Classicists, and Classical GeographyChapter 7 – Classics, History and Geography in Nineteenth-Century HarvardChapter 8 – Classical Geography in the Oxford School of GeographyChapter 9 – Classical Geography in the Nineteenth-Century ClassroomChapter 10 – Classical Geography in the New American UniversitiesEpilogue – Anglo-American Classical Geography since the 1930sIndex Promotional Geography and the Classical World explores the emergence of classical geography, particularly the ancient Greek and Roman world. At its inception, the subject flourished in Britain and America. But in the 1920s it declined and an important tradition was lost. In recovering it, Professor Koelsch has written an outstanding scholarly work. Promotional “Headline” Geography and the Classical World explores the emergence of classical geography, particularly the ancient Greek and Roman world. At its inception, the subject flourished in Britain and America. But in the 1920s it declined and an important tradition was lost. In recovering it, Professor Koelsch has written an outstanding scholarly work. Feature The first full-length study to explore the emergence of classical geography and its role in geographical and classical traditions since the eighteenth century Details ISBN1350197378 Author William A. Koelsch Short Title Geography and the Classical World Pages 480 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1350197378 ISBN-13 9781350197374 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Unearthing Historical Geographys Forgotten Past UK Release Date 2020-12-24 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-12-24 Illustrations 17 bw illus Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Tauris Historical Geographical Series Publication Date 2020-12-24 DEWEY 911.38 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2020-12-23 We’ve got this At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items – you’re bound to find what you want, at a price you’ll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130944125;

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