Geography And Revolution

A term with myriad associations, revolutionis commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolutionexamines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutionsCopernican, Newtonian, and Darwinianordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutionsthe advent of print, time-keeping, and photographyemerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutionsin France, England, Germany, and the United Statesare notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolutionis an invitation to take the whereas seriously as the whoand the whenin examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.

David N. Livingstone is professor of geography and intellectual history at the Queen's University of Belfast. Charles W. J. Withers is professor of geography at the University of Edinburgh. The editors have collaborated previously on Geography and Enlightenment, also published by the University of Chicago Press.