Doing Spatial History

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: Spatial history: An expansive field
	Varieties of spatial history
	The value of spatial history
		Lure, signpost, and translation aid
		Boundary spanner, ecumene, and GeoHumanities
		Analytical focus and conceptual frameworks
	‘The spatial turn’
	Space and place
	The aim of this volume
	Notes
Part I: Working with sources
	Chapter 1: Maps
		Authorship, map type, and materiality
		An act of Polish counter-mapping
			Territorial silences and economic prowess
			The past and future of a nation
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Travel guides
		‘What ought to be seen’
		Komm Mit : a Romanian German travel guide during the Cold War
		Celebrating the small scale
		Guidebooks: a palimpsest of mental maps
		Notes
	Chapter 3: Novels, autobiographies, and memoirs
		Fiction versus ‘non-fiction’
		The power of setting the scene
		Gender and the city
		Remapping Boston’s moral geography
		Reimagining the public city
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 4: Newspaper archives
		Question, source, and method
		Near-home encounters
		Venturing beyond the farm
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Architectural drawings
		The Berghof as performance space
		Revelations of the unbuilt Berghof
		Notes
Part II: Exploring spaces
	Chapter 6: Ships
		Introduction
			Sources
			Ships as mobile spaces
			Ships as malleable spaces
			Ships as administrative spaces
			The spectres haunting administrative space
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 7: Bars
		The ‘everyday’: a temporal designator, a spatial designator
		The sources of everyday spaces (in a dictatorship)
		Case study: bars as spaces of everyday political sociability and interaction in fascist Italy
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 8: Rivers
		Some relevant background on rivers
		The Amazon River, and its peoples
		Returning to indigenous spaces and their clash with European conquest
		Colonial realignments and indigenous spaces
		A riverscape in the Amazon
		Tapajós space: natural marks, seasonality, and residence
		Moving to the present
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 9: Infrastructures
		Infrastructure and the production of space
		Railroads and the idea of territorial integration: the Russian case
		Railroads and the emergence of new threats to the spatial order of the empire
		How to preserve political stability and territorial integrity in the railway age?
		Notes
	Chapter 10: Border zones
		The location and layout of the harbours
		Who was kept in
		Who was kept out
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part III: Reflecting on concepts, tools, and approaches
	Chapter 11: Lefebvrean landscapes
		A spatial approach to the history of mountain experience
		Space cut three ways
		Landscape practice
		The representational space of mountains
		Landscape re-presentation
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 12: Maritoriality
		Territories and borders
		Seas and maritories
		Sultans of the two seas
		Seas, waters, coasts, and islands
		Conclusions
		Notes
	Chapter 13: Regional imaginaries
		Four features of spatial imaginaries
			Spatial imaginaries are not fixed
			Spatial imaginaries are not singular
			Spatial imaginaries are not merely neutral descriptions of the world
			Spatial imaginaries are situated
		Tōyō, Tōnan Ajiya, and Nan'yō in textbooks
		Miki Kiyoshi on the ‘Oriental Character’
		Notes
	Chapter 14: Economic geographies
		Conceptual points of departure
		The source
		Conspicuous absences
		HGIS and the 1572 fiscal survey of Cyprus
		Reading between the pixels
		Further questions: from economic and environmental to spatial history via HGIS
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
	Chapter 15: Digital mapping
		Digital mapping and spatial analysis: mapping the Budapest ghettos
		Spatial visualization
		Notes
Selected bibliography
	Territoriality, infrastructure, and borders
	Nature, environment, and landscape
	City and home
	Social space and political protest
	Spaces of knowledge
	Spatial imaginaries
	Cartographic representations
	Historical GIS
Index