Author Archives: stuartelden

The Virtual Mappa Project and Digita Mappa: Online editions of Medieval Maps from the British Library and elsewhere – full update from Cat Crossley here. After a long journey and much hard work from a lot of very dedicated people, it is … Continue reading →

Laura Vaughan, Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography – UCL Press, September 2018 (open access) From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian … Continue reading →

Katherine Ibbett, Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France – U Penn Press, 2017. Late coming to this one, which won the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. “This is in every respect a brilliant and path-breaking … Continue reading →

Mark Polizzotti, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto – MIT Press, April 2018 An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn’t. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an … Continue reading →

Handbook on the Geographies of Power – edited by John Agnew and Mat Coleman, Edward Elgar, 2018. A very expensive but interesting looking collection. The so-called spatial turn in the social sciences means that many researchers have become much more … Continue reading →

Global Politics: A New Introduction, 3rd edition, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss – forthcoming in December 2018. The 3rd edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages … Continue reading →

Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire – Rowman International, January 2019. Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal—a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably and universally connected. Enrol … Continue reading →