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In Space We Read Time - On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics Author: Karl Schlogel

ISBN: 9781941792087 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 550 Published: 17 October 2016 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 16.51 x 3.81 Description: Karl Schlogel's In Space We Read Time is a unique book, both path breaking and stocktaking at the same time. Following the "spatial turn" in historiography in the 1980s and 90s but also following his own extraordinary city-writing in the Soviet bloc of those same decades (later published as Moscow 1937 by Polity Press in 2012, and designated by The Atlantic as one of the five best books of the year and winner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding), this book is both a model for thinking about the history in space, and a stimulating history of thinking about space in (mostly) Germany and the East in the twentieth century; the book also contains wonderful little essays on the United States and Los Angeles. Schlogel's discussions range from intellectual history of the highest order (discussing the history of geography in Germany and France at the end of the nineteenth century), to hidden narratives of the spatial (hand-drawn maps made in and of the Kovno ghetto by inmates) to microhistories (study of the Berlin phone book of the early 1930s). And always there is Schlogel's keen eye for the important...

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