Alternative Title
The Spatial Turn of Social and Cultural History: A Review of the Current Field
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2014
Abstract
In 2010 Ralph Kingston highlighted how history’s ‘rediscovery of space and place’was firmly on the agenda for the twenty-first century.1 Four years on this article askswhether Kingston’s claim is still valid or whether historians’ passion for all thingsspatial has run its course. This article reviews five recent collections of essays connected by themes of urban space and place, and asks how far the exploration of spaceas a way of understanding the past is still proving an embryonic and constructiveway of approaching the past.
Discipline
Social History
Publication
European History Quarterly
Volume
44
Issue
4
First Page
703
Last Page
717
ISSN
0265-6914
Identifier
10.1177/0265691414545018
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
WILLIAMSON, Fiona.(2014). The spatial turn in social history: A review of recent research trends. European History Quarterly, 44(4), 703-717.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2651
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691414545018