Description: RUDIMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY On a New Plan, Designed to Assist the Memory by Comparison and Classification with Numerous Engravings of Manners, Customs and Curiosities Accompanied with an Atlas exhibiting the prevailing Religions, forms of Government, degrees of Civilization and the comparative size of Towns, Rivers and Mountains by WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE (1794-1845). Eleventh edition from the third improved edition with corrections. Hartford, 1829.Description: Brown paper covers with black lettering on covers and leather spine. Illustrated frontis and others throughout.Condition: Good. Covers are rubbed, bumped and soiled. Age toning throughout with foxing. Pages are clean and tight. (see photos)Pages: 208Size: 3.75" x 6"Weight: 6 ozsWilliam Channing Woodbridge was an American geographer, educational reformer, and the author of many geography textbooks.The active use of maps was essential because those being taught had to see places in relation to each other. He felt that the small amount of knowledge that could be acquired in a classroom was not of much practical use to travelers, explorers, soldiers or missionaries; the real importance of geography was to lead the students outside his own limited experience and to learn to see themselves as part of a larger human family. The well-taught student of geography, he argued, should learn to wonder without condemning and to smile at some new experience without contempt.In his discussions of the human condition in various regions, Woodbridge emphasized that the human condition in any part of the globe is primarily the product of access to education and opportunity. Climate, religion, and the nature of governments played some role, but he had no place for the racial slurs that were to disfigure so many American textbooks of the second half of the nineteenth century. He regarded the way in which societies treated and educated women as a useful measure of their degree of enlightenment. Check out my other current book listings. I will combine shipping for the best rate. Ask if you have questions. No reserve. You bid, it sells!Notice: This book will be shipped book rate. It is slower, but cheaper. Be patient!
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Hartford
Language: English
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Author: William C. Woodbridge
Publisher: Oliver D. Cook
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Geography
Subject: Reference
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Year Printed: 1829