Nikola von Merveldt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nikola von Merveldt plays a role.
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2017 Chapter 2. Mapping the new citizen – Pedagogy of cartophobia: Philanthropic geographies in the late Enlightenment Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, Goga, Nina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 41–58 | Chapter
This chapter looks at the place of maps in the late eighteenth-century German pedagogic reform movement of philanthropism. Advocating a realist reform of the humanist schooling tradition, philanthropists declared geography to be the foundational elementary science. More importantly, geography was… read more