Category Archives: Books

Chapter One

Posted on October 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter One is now in pretty good shape. The issue of word length has meant that I’ve been fairly minimal in terms of what I have added. The chapter begins with readings of Greek myths of autochthony, drawing on a … Continue reading →

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Irnerius

Posted on October 22, 2010 by stuartelden

In the talk today I will use this image for the first time. It was one I stumbled upon in a book about Philipp Melanchthon (briefly mentioned here). To date this is the best version I have – a scan from the … Continue reading →

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University of Washington seminar

Posted on October 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I give my first talk of this North America trip, at the University of Washington. Details here. There will be an informal lunch with postgraduates first, discussing the ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ paper forthcoming in Progress in Human Geography. Although … Continue reading →

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Seattle and the Greeks

Posted on October 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Now in Seattle, at University of Washington. Slowly getting the infrastructure of life and work established, but dealing badly with West-coast jetlag. To be honest part of me is glad to be out of the UK as the comprehensive spending … Continue reading →

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The importance of small details

Posted on October 15, 2010 by stuartelden

As last week’s update on the book said, there were lots of minor things that I wanted to get resolved before I left London. Most of these presented relatively few problems. A few though caused me considerably more work. With Vitoria … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory contents

Posted on October 11, 2010 by stuartelden

This is the proposed contents for The Birth of Territory…

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Territory book update

Posted on October 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Last week felt like a really important step forward with The Birth of Territory manuscript. This week has been less dramatic, but good progress again. The discussion of Grotius and Selden now forms a brief coda to Chapter Seven which … Continue reading →

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Chapter Nine

Posted on October 1, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to concentrate on writing this week. My plan was to have a complete draft of all the chapters to take with me to Seattle, and that’s only about two weeks away and Chapter Nine needed some serious … Continue reading →

Posted in Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicholas of Cusa, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Theodor Reinking | 2 Comments

Territory book progress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on chapter nine of my territory book. A lot of this has been checking minor details in libraries, including original language sources such as the Latin for a few quotes from Newton’s Principia … Continue reading →

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Why we write

Posted on September 21, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been thinking a bit more about Graham’s post on being productive. He notes that the majority of his recent pieces have been in response to requests or commissions to write. Looking my last five years of publications, it’s clear … Continue reading →

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