The Uses of Space in Early Modern History (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

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. "The study of space and place is unquestionably becoming an important research focus in the humanities and social sciences. And while there is an expanding body of theoretical work on the importance of these concepts in various disciplines, less attention has been paid to how spatial ideas and approaches can actually be deployed to understand the societies, cultures, and mentalities of the past. In this volume, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history, and how spaces and spatial ideas were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods. Together, the contributors represent a comprehensive range of disciplines concerned with space and history, including archaeology, social history, intellectual history, imperial history, geography, and cartography, allowing for an unusually broad variety of case studies and perspectives"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiv History and the Uses of Space....Pages 1-18 Living Space: The Interpretation of English Vernacular Houses....Pages 19-42 Gender and the Organization of Sacred Space in Early Modern England c. 1580–1640....Pages 43-74 Liminal Space in the Early Modern Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands: Historiography, Ontology, and Politics....Pages 75-96 A Space between Two Worlds: St. Petersburg in the Early Eighteenth Century....Pages 97-124 The Spaces of Science and Sciences of Space: Geography and Astronomy in the Paris Academy of Sciences....Pages 125-150 The Space between Empires: Coastal and Insular Microregions in the Early Nineteenth-Century World....Pages 151-171 Space, Sympathy, and Empire: Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings....Pages 173-196 A Tale of Three Scales: Ways of Malthusian Worldmaking....Pages 197-226 The Uses of Space in Early Modern History—An Afterword....Pages 227-234 Back Matter....Pages 235-269