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)

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691414545018

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