Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography's Forgotten Past

ISBN-13: 9781780760643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 480 str.

William A. Koelsch

Opis

Geography and the Classical World is the first full-length study to explore the emergence of classical geography - the geographical study of the ancient Mediterranean, in particular the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. With adventurous beginnings in the Society of Dilettanti, the subject flourished in both Britain and America, as geographers, explorers, classicists and historians all contributed to its rise. But in the 1920s it went into decline, and an important part of the geographical and classical tradition was lost. In recovering this field of inquiry that once lay at the heart of both geography and the classical tradition, Professor Koelsch has written a pioneering work of outstanding scholarship that will be of interest to historical geographers, classicists, historians and students of the classical tradition.

Spis treści

I Introduction: the Search for a Source Chapter 1 – The Society of Dilettanti and Ancient Geography Chapter 2 – Classical Geography in the Colonial and Post-Revolutionary American College Chapter 3 – Classical Geography in Thomas Jefferson’s University Chapter 4 – From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Professionalization Chapter 5 – William E. Gladstone and the Reconstruction of Bronze Age Geography Chapter 6 – British Historians, Classicists, and Classical Geography Chapter 7 – Classics, History and Geography in Nineteenth-Century Harvard Chapter 8 – Classical Geography in the Oxford School of Geography Chapter 9 – Classical Geography in the Nineteenth-Century Classroom Chapter 10 – Classical Geography in the New American Universities Epilogue – Anglo-American Classical Geography since the 1930s Index