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Charting an Empire<\/i><\/b> (University of Chicago Press, 1997)<\/span> How did early modern England\u2014an island nation on the periphery of world affairs\u2014transform itself into the center of a worldwide empire? Lesley B. Cormack argues that the newly institutionalized study of geography played a crucial role in fueling England\u2019s imperial ambitions.<\/span><\/p>\n Cormack demonstrates that geography was part of the Arts curriculum between 1580 and 1620, read at university by a broad range of soon-to-be political, economic, and religious leaders. By teaching these young Englishmen to view their country in a global context, and to see England playing a major role on that stage, geography supplied a set of shared assumptions about the feasibility and desirability of an English empire. Thus, the study of geography helped create an ideology of empire that made possible the actual forays of the next century.<\/span><\/p>\n Geography emerges in Cormack\u2019s account as the fruitful ground between college and court, in whose well-prepared soil the seeds of English imperialism took root.\u00a0Charting an Empire<\/em>\u00a0will interest historians of science, geography, cartography, education, and empire.<\/span><\/p>\n (Description Source: University of Chicago Press<\/a>) Lesley B. Cormack<\/strong>\u00a0is Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). Before this, she was a Dean at the University of Alberta and at Simon Fraser University. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1988 and taught at the University of Alberta in the Department of History and Classics for 17 years. She is a historian of early modern science, specializing in geography and mathematics in 16th-century England, and the author of\u00a0Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620<\/em>\u00a0and co-editor with Andrew Ede of\u00a0A History of Science in Society: A Reader<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yynjv2az<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher – University of Chicago Press<\/a><\/span> Paper ISBN: 9780226116075<\/span> The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em> aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/span><\/p>\n
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