Adam Gopnik writing in the New Yorker discusses the revival of what he calls 'geographical history'. He starts with the prospect of a 'history of spaces' moving us beyond the intimacies of the sort of 'place history' displayed in Le Roy Ladurie's mesmerizing Montaillou, but then shoots over the cliff and into the waiting arms of Robert Kaplan…
Derek Gregory on the benefits and limits of 'geographical history', engaging with this piece in The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/10/29/121029crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all
