All Outputs (13)

The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s (2024)
Journal Article

This essay considers an early eighteenth-century quarrel about the geographical dimensions of Paris and London. The dispute involved representatives of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society in London. The three participants—... Read More about The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter

Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter

The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 The Authors This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentieth-century internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers. We show h... Read More about The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race.

'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display (2018)
Journal Article

This essay uses the personal archives of Clive Morrison-Bell (1871-1956), a campaigning Conservative politician who made extensive use of maps and cartographic models, to consider the entangled histories of cartography, economics and geopolitics in e... Read More about 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display.

Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 (2015)
Journal Article

This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges a... Read More about Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950.

The interrogation of Sándor Radó: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War (2015)
Journal Article

This essay uses recently released intelligence files to consider a pivotal episode in the long and eventful career of Alexander (Sándor) Radó (1899–1981), geographer, journalist and Soviet intelligence agent who lived and worked in various European c... Read More about The interrogation of Sándor Radó: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War.

Globalizing Cartography? The International Map of the World, The International Geographical Union, and the United Nations (2014)
Journal Article

Few maps mirror the history of the twentieth century as closely as the International Map of the World (IMW). A proposal for a map of the entire globe on a scale of 1:1 million, using standard conventional signs, was presented at the Fifth Internation... Read More about Globalizing Cartography? The International Map of the World, The International Geographical Union, and the United Nations.

A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century (2014)
Journal Article

This essay provides a critical commentary on the life of Leo Bagrow (1881–1957), the founding editor of Imago Mundi, drawing on previously unused correspondence from the journal’s archive, recently catalogued by the British Library in London. Bagrow’... Read More about A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century.

Reconstruction and display of a nineteenth century landscape model (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Mobilising the elective diaspora: US–German academic exchanges since 1945 (2014)
Journal Article

Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France (2013)
Journal Article

This essay considers the politics and patronage of geography in early-modern France. It examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, widely acknowledged as the 18th century's pre-eminent scientific society, came to recognise geography as an independen... Read More about Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France.

Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis (2011)
Book Chapter

The ambiguous phrase “violent memories” strikes at two of the key conceptual matters about which scholars of India have theorized: memories of violent acts and the violence that such recollections can do to those who remember them, those who are reme... Read More about Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis.