The geographical tradition: episodes in the history of a contested enterprise/
David N. Livingstone
- Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993.
- viii, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-410) and index.
Should the history of geography be X-rated? : telling geography's story -- Of myths and maps : geography in the Age of Reconnaissance -- Revolution, celestial and terrestrial : geography and the Scientific Revolution -- Naturalists and navigators : geography in the Enlightenment -- Of design and dining clubs : pre-Darwinian geography -- The geographical experiment : revolution and the founding of a discipline -- A 'sternly practical' pursuit : geography, race and empire -- The regionalizing ritual : geography, place and particularity -- Statistics don't bleed : quantification and its detractors -- The geographical tradition : a conversational conclusion.