Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy: “Instructions for Travellers,” circa 1750–1850...

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Brian P. Cooper (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)

Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy

“Instructions for Travellers,” circa 1750–1850

Brian P. Cooper (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary reference works; Political economy; Economic history

Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750–1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations, and, in turn, how political economists used travelers’ observations in their own analyses.

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.

By: Brian P. Cooper (Hobart and William Smith Colleges USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781032125770
ISBN 10: 1032125772
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
Pages: 367
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brian P. Cooper is an independent scholar whose research explores the boundaries of economics past and present. His publications include Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859 (2007), and ""Social Classifications, Social Statistics and the ‘Facts’ of ‘Difference’ in Economics"", in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (2003).

Reviews for Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy: “Instructions for Travellers,” circa 1750–1850

Brian Cooper unearths the hitherto neglected connections between economics and travel writing to successfully shed fresh light on each of these arenas. The book is an important addition to our knowledge of the history of political economy Robert J. Mayhew, Dept. of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK