Category Archives: The Birth of Territory

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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Leaving Nijmegen

Posted on September 10, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ll be leaving Nijmegen early in the morning to head back to London. The Alexander von Humboldt lecture seemed to be well received. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I wanted but it was well attended and there were … Continue reading →

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Library

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

A pretty productive day in the libraries – Senate House and Warburg. I managed to track down a large number of the Leibniz references, although inevitably there were a few deadends. I also need to reread one text as I … Continue reading →

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Leibniz

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Anyone who’s been reading this blog recently knows that I’ve been working on Leibniz, and little else, for the past few weeks. I can’t stress enough the difficulties I’m encountering in this work.  Part of the problem is that – … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory

Posted on September 1, 2010 by stuartelden

The title of most of the lectures I will be giving this autumn will be ‘The Birth of Territory’. It’s increasingly clear to me that this is also the title of the book I’ve been writing, with no complicating subtitle.

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