Putting the world into a box: A geography of nineteenth-century 'travelling landscapes'

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 89 B, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 287-306

  della Dora, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Empire; Landscape representations; Materiality; Mobility; Optical devices; Panoramas

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36849031892     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2007.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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