The Geographical Tradition and the challenges of geography geographised

Abstract

After briefly reflecting on the birth of The Geographical Tradition, I focus on several key issues that snake their way through the observations of my commentators. These include presentism in historiography, the political positioning of the historian, and the role of disciplinary location in the production of subject history. I then reflect on the promises and perils of “big history” before moving to some thoughts on the complex interplay between translation and transformation in the circulation of texts. I close with some observations on the implications for geographers of thinking geographically about geographical knowledge.

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