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Primary Geography: Introductory to Swinton's "Grammar School Geography"
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104 pages, Hardcover
Published May 20, 2016
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January 26, 2025
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This is a short grammar school textbook on geography published in 1879. It deals primarily with the physical and economic aspects geography and relatively little with the political and cultural aspects. It dates from an age before geography was taught under the umbrella of "social studies". The maps were the most interesting part. If you're like me, you've seen plenty of maps of 20th century pre-WWII. 1879 however was a REALLY long time ago from a country-border perspective. South American borders were in flux. Sub-Saharan Africa had not been carved up yet. Other than the Cape Colony, there aren't really any European colonies shown. And those countries that are on the map lack borders. North Africa, Asia and Europe are all divided up among the handful of familiar empires. Any European claims on South and Southeast Asia are not described as such. India, for example, is just "Hindoostan" and is not shown as part of the British Empire (which it was at the time). The US wouldn't really be an imperial power for another 20 yrs, so maybe there wasn't the interest in describing the rest of the world in those terms yet. Besides a lot of locations with names that differ from the names we use today, there are also a lot unfamiliar spellings. Also an interesting term popped out: the globe (as in a classroom globe) is called an "artificial globe" - to distinguish it from a conceptual geometric shape - but that's a term that clearly did not stick!
This is a short grammar school textbook on geography published in 1879. It deals primarily with the physical and economic aspects geography and relatively little with the political and cultural aspects. It dates from an age before geography was taught under the umbrella of "social studies". The maps were the most interesting part. If you're like me, you've seen plenty of maps of 20th century pre-WWII. 1879 however was a REALLY long time ago from a country-border perspective. South American borders were in flux. Sub-Saharan Africa had not been carved up yet. Other than the Cape Colony, there aren't really any European colonies shown. And those countries that are on the map lack borders. North Africa, Asia and Europe are all divided up among the handful of familiar empires. Any European claims on South and Southeast Asia are not described as such. India, for example, is just "Hindoostan" and is not shown as part of the British Empire (which it was at the time). The US wouldn't really be an imperial power for another 20 yrs, so maybe there wasn't the interest in describing the rest of the world in those terms yet. Besides a lot of locations with names that differ from the names we use today, there are also a lot unfamiliar spellings. Also an interesting term popped out: the globe (as in a classroom globe) is called an "artificial globe" - to distinguish it from a conceptual geometric shape - but that's a term that clearly did not stick!
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