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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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“Most Valuable and Interesting to the Science of Our Country”: Northern Exploratory Travels
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“A Living Pompeii”: Antiquarianism, Identity, and the North
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Geographies of the North
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Reviews
'Byrne restores the experience of Northern travels to its rightful place at the heart of European Romanticism. The reader is guided with great agility between antiquarian and ethnographic visions, traversing the liminal spaces of the North's own inhabited worlds and natural histories. At long last we have a book that provides a convincing critical analysis of the North in the formation of Britain's cultural identity.' - Michael Bravo, Head of History and Public Policy, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
'This is a superb account of British northern travelers, demonstrating the holistic blend of the emerging sciences with the arts, literature, antiquarian interest and the taste for indigenous cultures. Angela Byrne's richly nuanced North stands out as a major projection screen for the imperial imagination, on par with the Orient or the Tropics, and as an emerging zone of cultural ideas and economic transactions foreshadowing today's interactive Arcticthat is deeply integrated in world affairs.' - Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and editor of Science, Geopolitics, and Culture in the Nordic Region
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographies of the Romantic North
Book Subtitle: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830
Authors: Angela Byrne
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311320
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31131-3Published: 28 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45693-2Published: 28 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31132-0Published: 28 August 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-6630
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 265
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Social History, European History, Modern History