While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how space can be applied to the study of history, and how space was used at specific times.

Autorentext
Lauren Benton, New York University, USA Amanda Flather, University of Essex, UK Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK Matthew Johnson, Northwestern University, USA Paul Keenan, London School of Economics, UK Beat Kümin, University of Warwick, UK Robert Mayhew, University of Bristol, UK Jeppe Mulich, New York University, USA Claire Norton, St Mary's University College Twickenham, UK Andrew Rudd, University of Exeter, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: History and the Uses of Space; Paul Stock 1. Living Space: Everyday Living in English Vernacular Houses; Matthew Johnson 2. Gender and the Organisation of Sacred Space in Early Modern England, c1580-1640; Amanda Flather 3. Liminal Space in the Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands: Politics, Culture, Religion; Claire Norton 4. A Space Between Two Worlds: St. Petersburg in the Early Eighteenth Century; Paul Keenan 5. The Spaces of Science and the Sciences of Space: Geography and Astronomy in the Paris Academy of Sciences; Mike Heffernan 6. The Space between Empires: The Global Phenomenon of Microregions in the Early Nineteenth Century; Lauren Benton and Jeppe Mulich 7. Space, Sympathy, and Empire: Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings; Andrew Rudd 8. A Tale of Three Scales: Ways of Malthusian Worldmaking; Robert Mayhew The Uses of Space in Early Modern History: An Afterword; Beat Kümin