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Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy: "Instructions for Travellers," circa 1750-1850
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Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy: "Instructions for Travellers," circa 1750-1850
Current price: $160.00
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Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy: "Instructions for Travellers," circa 1750-1850
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Cooper examines journals, letters, books, art, and critical reviews to cast in sharp relief questions raised about political economy by contemporaries over the status of facts and evidence, whether its principles admitted of universal application, and the determination of wealth, value, and happiness in different societies. Travelers citing T.R. Malthus’s population principle blurred the gendered boundaries between domestic economy and British political economy, as embodied in the idealized subjects: domestic woman and economic man.
The book opens new realms in the histories of science in its analyses of debates about gender in social scientific observation: Maria Edgeworth, Maria Graham, and Harriet Martineau observe a role associated with women and methodically interpret what they observe, an act reserved, in theory, by men.