Exploring European frontiers : British travellers in the age of Enlightenment / Brian Dolan.

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Dolan, Brian, 1970-

Title & Author:

Exploring European frontiers : British travellers in the age of Enlightenment / Brian Dolan.

Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Description:

xi, 232 pages

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preparing the course: the death of the grand tour and the making of a literary traveller -- Northern frontier: Scandinavia- the mismeasure of modernity and the 'Age of liberty' -- Eastern frontier: Russia and its frontier- cultivating empire and imitating enlightenment -- Southern frontier: Greece and the Levant- the archaeological appropriation of the historical frontier -- Coming home: displaying and describing the trophies of travels.

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Publisher description
Tables of contents

ISBN:

0312230516
9780312230517

Subject:

Travelers Great Britain 18th century.
Voyageurs Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Travel.
Travelers.
Europe Description and travel.
Europe Descriptions et voyages.
Europe.
Great Britain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213882
Call No.: D907 .D6 1999
Status: Available

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