X marks the spot women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895
During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorica...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press
c2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30787828*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: mapping imperial hierarchies and ruling the world
- The dysfunctional "family of man": Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland classify human races in pre-darwinian primers
- Place settings at the imperial dinner party: hierarchies of consumption in the works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield
- Terra incognita: the gendering of geographic experience in the works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H.C. Legh, Lucy Wilson, Mrs. E. Burrows, and Maria Hack
- "Prisoners in its spatial matrix"? resisting imperial geography in thirdspace
- Conclusion: contextualizing archival recovery.
