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Author:   William A. Koelsch (Clark University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9781780760643

ISBN 10:   1780760647
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   11 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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'an excellent book on an almost unexplored field' - Christopher Stray, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics, Swansea University, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.

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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.

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