The Geographic Imagination of Modernity

"The Geographic Imagination traces the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western through the decades around 1800. This period represents an extraordinary intellectual threshold, a time when European society invented new conceptual strategies for making sense of itself. Tang's book brings to light, for the first time, geography as one of the most important of these conceptual strategies. In reconstructing the emergence of geographic science and the modern semantics of geographic space, tills book approaches the literary and philosophical discourses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries from a radically new perspective."--BOOK JACKET.