Books
Forthcoming. Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
Urban epidemics and historical geography: cholera in London 1848-9 (Norwich: Geobooks, 1985). ISBN-13:
978-0860941941 ISBN-10: 0860941949.
In press, Geopolitics and Empire: the legacy of Halford Mackinder (Oxford University Press).
In progress, Young Ireland: colonialism, violence, nationalism (Manchester University Press, under contract for delivery
December 2008).
Edited Volumes:
With Chris Philo (eds), Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present (London: Pergamon, 1993).
ISBN 13: 9780080413853 | ISBN 10: 0080413854.
With Charles Withers (eds), Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). ISBN-13: 9780521364997 | ISBN-10:
052136499X. http://books.google.com/books?id=nnWQuHFs10MC
Articles
“Disaster Capitalism in Historical Perspective,” with Nally, D., Geographical Journal, 174(3): pp. 285-6. 2008.
“The Geography of Terror,” Political Geography, 27(3): pp. 360-364. 2008.
“Progressive Geopolitics,” Geography Compass, 2(5): pp. 1599-1620. 2008.
“Forging Early-Modern Colonial Ireland,” Journal of Historical Geography, 34(1): pp. 138-144. 2008.
“Vital Geographies: Life, Longevity and the Human Condition,” with S. Reid-Henry, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Forthcoming.
Video interview on Public Knowledge: http://pkjournal.org/blog/?page_id=339
‘Progressive Geopolitics,’ Geography Compass 2:5 (2008) 1599-1620; doi:10.1111/j.1749-
8198.2008.00125.x
‘The geography of terror,’ Political Geography 27 (2008) 360-364; doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.01.004
‘Forging early-modern colonial Ireland,’ Journal of Historical Geography 34 (2008) 138-144;
doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2007.11.004
‘Dublin, modernity and the postcolonial fix,’ Irish Geography 39 (2006) 177-183.
‘The social shell,’ Historical Geography 34 (2006) 49-70.
‘The spatial poetics of James Joyce,’ New Formations 57 (2006) 107-125;
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/lwish/nf/2005/00000057/00000001/art00009
‘Naturalising empire: echoes of Mackinder for the next American century?’ Geopolitics 11 (2006) 74-
98; doi:10.1080/14650040500524095
‘The political pivot of geography,’ Geographical Journal 170 (2004) 337-346; doi:10.1111/j.0016-
7398.2004.00135.x
‘Mother Ireland and the revolutionary sisters,’ Cultural Geographies 11 (2004) 459-483;
doi:10.1191/1474474004eu315oa
‘Ireland after theory’, Bullán: an Irish Studies Journal 6 (2002) 107-114.
‘Constructions of the social,’ Journal of Urban History 28 (2001) 98-106.
‘“Educate that holy hatred”: place, trauma and identity in the Irish nationalism of John Mitchel,’
Political Geography 20 (2001) 885-911; doi:10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00018-X
‘Time and some citizenship: nationalism and Thomas Davis,’ Bullán: an Irish Studies Journal 5 (2001)
23-54.
‘Maps, models and registers: the historical geography of the population of England,’ Journal of
Historical Geography 26 (2000) 298-304; doi:10.1006/jhge.2000.0196
‘Graham Smith (1953-99): an appreciation,’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 24
(1999) 495-500; doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.t01-1-00481.x
‘The virtuous circle of facts and values in the New Western History,’ Annals of the Association of
American Geographers 88 (1998) 377-409; doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00106
‘The imperial subject: geography and travel writing in the work of Halford Mackinder and Mary
Kingsley,’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 22 (1997) 450-72; doi:10.1111/j.0020-
2754.1997.00450.x
___, P. Laxton and J. Campbell, ‘Duncan and the cholera test: public health in mid-nineteenth
century Liverpool,’ Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 143 (1993) 87-115.
‘Class and environment in Fatal Years,’ Bulletin of the History of Medicine 68 (1994) 113-123.
‘Le handicap urbain et le déclin de la mortalité en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles,’ Annales de
démographie historique 1993, 75-105.
‘Historical Geography,’ Progress in Human Geography 16 (1992) 406-413
‘Historical Geography,’ Progress in Human Geography 15 (1991) 47-56.
‘Cholera, nuisances and environmental management in Islington 1830-1855,’ Medical History Special
Supplement no.11 (1992) 94-125.
‘This Common Inheritance: green idealism versus Tory pragmatism,’ Journal of Biogeography 18 (1991)
363-370.
‘Historical Geography,’ Progress in Human Geography 13 (1989) 259-266.
‘Death in the time of cholera,’ Journal of Historical Geography 15 (1989) 425-432; doi:10.1016/0305-
7488(89)90007-8
‘Historical Geography,’ Progress in Human Geography 12 (1988) 103-110
‘Private property and public health reform in England 1830-1870,’ Social Science and Medicine 26 (1988)
187-199; doi:10.1016/0277-9536(88)90058-5
‘History, geography and world systems theory,’ Journal of Historical Geography 14 (1988) 281-292;
doi:10.1016/S0305-7488(88)80223-8
‘Safeguard for a social contract,’ Times Higher Education Supplement 15 July (1988) 13.
‘Private enterprise rains O.K.? London and its water supply,’ London Journal 12 (1987) 180-186.
‘Historical Geography,’ Progress in Human Geography 10 (1985) 587-594.
‘Halford Mackinder,’ Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies 9 (1985) 71-86.
‘Cholera and public health reform: the significance of the geographical patterns,’ Bulletin of the Society
for the Social History of Medicine 35 (1984) 30-32.
‘Closed space and political practice: Halford Mackinder and Frederick Jackson Turner,’ Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space 2 (1984) 23-34; doi:10.1068/d020023
‘Making space for Marx,’ Journal of Historical Geography 10 (1984) 411-417.
Chapters
“Taking Theory for a Walk in Ireland,” pp. 9-22 in E. Gagen, H. Lorimer and A. Vasudevan (eds.), Practicing the Archive: Reflections on Methods and Practice in Historical Geography. London: Historical Geography Research Group. 2008.
“Geopolitics,” in J. Agnew and D. Livingstone (eds.), Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage. Forthcoming.
“Mackinder, H. J.,” in R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London: Elsevier Science. Forthcoming.
“Kropotkin, P.,” in R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London: Elsevier Science. Forthcoming.
“Frontier,” in D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts and S. Whatmore (eds.), Dictionary of Human Geography, sixth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming.
“Frontier Thesis,” in D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts and S. Whatmore (eds.), Dictionary of Human Geography, sixth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming
“Heartland,” in D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, and S. Whatmore (eds.), Dictionary of Human Geography, sixth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming.
“Sequent Occupance,” in D. Gregory, R. Johnston, G. Pratt, M. Watts, and S. Whatmore (eds.), Dictionary of Human Geography, sixth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming.
‘Taking theory for a walk in Ireland,’ in Elizabeth Gagen, Hayden Lorimer and Alex Vasudevan (eds), Practicing the archive: reflections on methods and practice in historical geography (London: Historical Geography Research Group, 2008) 9-22.
‘The history of medical geography after Foucault,’ in Stuart Elden and Jeremy Crampton (eds) Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and Geography (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007) 205-222; http://books.google.com/books?id=LgRfBCMFPrAC&pg=PA205&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=ACfU3U3DCLvoraAexosi7mZO-NStrUgKGg <http://books.google.com/books?id=LgRfBCMFPrAC&pg=PA205&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=ACfU3U3DCLvoraAexosi7mZO-NStrUgKGg>
‘Bare life, political violence and the territorial structure of Britain and Ireland,’ in Derek Gregory and Allan Pred (eds), Violent geographies: fear, terror and political violence (New York: Routledge, 2006) 9-34;
‘Europe as the just measure of the world,’ in Phillipe Pelletier (ed.), Reclus: textes et contextes (Lyon: Université de Lyon, 2006).
‘Halford Mackinder,’ in Bernard Lightman (ed.) Dictionary of nineteenth-century British scientists (London: Thoemmes Press, 2004)
‘Environmental history,’ in James Duncan, Nuala Johnson, Richard Schein (eds), A companion to cultural geography (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) 194-208; doi:10.1002/9780470996515.ch13
‘Nation, empire, cosmopolis: Ireland and the break with Britain,’ in David Gilbert, Dave Matless and Brian Short (eds), Geographies of British modernity: space and society in the twentieth century, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) 204-228; doi:10.1002/9780470752258.ch11
‘Imperial geopolitics,’ in John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell, Gearoid O’Tuathail (eds), A companion to political geography (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) 173-186; http://books.google.com/books?id=p2c6VJnZRuoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22a+companion+to+political+geography%22&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U14UExOEjGEt8LtAECkz_2bRBKdyg#PPA173,M1
___ and Paul Laxton, ‘Ethnic groups as public health hazards: the Famine Irish in Liverpool and lazaretto politics,’ in Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña (ed.), The politics of the healthy life: an international perspective (Sheffield: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, 2002) 13-40.
Paul Laxton and ___, ‘Power and salubrity: the politics of sanitary reform in Victorian Liverpool,’ in Patrice Bourdelais (ed.), Les hygiénistes: enjeux, modèles et pratiques (XVIIIe-XXe siècles) (Paris: Belin, 2001) 163-192.
‘Town Hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840-63,’ in Sally Sheard and Helen Power (eds), Body and city: histories of urban public health (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000) 89-108.
‘Demography and industrialisation: a geographical overview,’ in Anders Brändström and Lars-Göran Tedebrand (eds) Industrialisation and the Epidemiologic Transition (Umea: Demographic Data Base, 1999) 3-27.
‘Tuberculosis and the medicalisation of English society, 1880-1920,’ in John Woodward and Robert Jütte (eds), Coping with sickness: historical aspects of health care in a European perspective (Sheffield: European Association for the History of Medicine, 1995) 147-170.
___, W. Robert Lee and John Rogers, ‘Urbanisierung und Professionalisierung als Bestimmungsfaktoren bei der Gestaltung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems im 19. Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich,’ in Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Peter Marschalck (eds), Städtische Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert: Soziale und demographische Aspekte der Urbanisierung (St. Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1994) 258-281.
‘The city as spectacle: Paris and the celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution,’ in Gerry Kearns and Chris Philo (eds), Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present (London: Pergamon, 1993) 49-102; includes ‘Culture, history, capital: a critical introduction to the selling of places,’ by Philo and Kearns, 1-32.
‘Quiet prosperity: the Nordic countries,’ in Stuart Corbridge (ed.), World economy (Oxford: Andromeda, 1993) 86-95.
‘Fin-de-siècle geopolitics: Mackinder, Hobson and theories of global closure,’ in Peter Taylor (ed.), Political geography of the twentieth century (London: Belhaven Press, 1993) 9-30.
‘Historical and geographical perspectives,’ in Alisdair Rogers, Heather Viles, Andrew Goudie (eds), The student’s companion to geography (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992) 13-18.
‘Biology, class, and the urban penalty,’ in Gerry Kearns and Charles Withers (eds), Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) 12-30; http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=nnWQuHFs10MC&dq=%22urbanising+britain%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=CzAsrqlLSw&sig=DYmPbIG5kz1XigBq1P-MRDbYJKE&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA12,M1 <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=nnWQuHFs10MC&dq=%22urbanising+britain%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=CzAsrqlLSw&sig=DYmPbIG5kz1XigBq1P-MRDbYJKE&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA12,M1>
___ and Charles Withers, ‘Introduction,’ in Gerry Kearns and Charles Withers (eds), Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) 1-11; http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=nnWQuHFs10MC&dq=%22urbanising+britain%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=CzAsrqlLSw&sig=DYmPbIG5kz1XigBq1P-MRDbYJKE&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA1,M1
___, W. Robert Lee and John Rogers, ‘The interaction of political and economic factors in the public health of England, Germany and Sweden,’ in John Rogers and Marie Clark Nelson (eds), Urbanisation and the epidemiologic transition (Uppsala: Family History Project, 1989) 9-81
‘Introduction,’ in John Rogers and Marie Clark Nelson (eds), Urbanisation and the epidemiologic transition (Uppsala: Family History Project, 1989) 7-8.
‘Zivilis and hygaeia: urban public health during the epidemiologic transition,’ in Richard Lawton (ed.), The rise and fall of great cities (London: Belhaven, 1989) 96-124.
‘The urban penalty and the population history of England,’ in Anders Brändström and Lars-Göran Tedebrand (eds), Society and health during the demographic transition (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1988) 213-236.
Grants
1978-80: Social Science Research Council Research Studentship
1985: British Academy, research visit to Sweden: £1,100
1986: Swedish Institute, research visit to Sweden: £2,400
1987: British Council, research visit to Belgium, £200
1987-90: Wellcome Foundation, research on the historical demography of Sweden, with W.R. Lee
(University of Liverpool): £20,000
1987-90: Swedish Riksbank, research on the historical demography of Sweden, with J. Rogers and
M.C. Nelson (University of Uppsala) and W.R. Lee: £30,000
1988-90: Swedish Riksbank, research on the historical demography of Sweden, with J. Rogers, M.C.
Nelson and W.R. Lee: £50,000
1990-92: Wellcome Foundation, preparation of an edition of the letter books of William Henry
Duncan, with P. Laxton (University of Liverpool): £14,552
1991: Nuffield Trust, research fellowship to work on the Urban Penalty: £17,663
1991-92: Economic and Social Research Council, research on the geography of mortality in
nineteenth-century England and Wales, with Bob Woods (University of Liverpool): £10,000
1992: Economic and Social Research Council, Anglo-Swedish-German research initiative: £2,000
1992, 1993, 1994: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Summer Salary (1992,1993,1994), grants
in aid of research 1992-3: $10,000; personal assistant and research support 1993-4: $15,279
1993-95: Economic and Social Research Council, research on the geography of mortality in
nineteenth-century England and Wales, with Bob Woods: £75,000
1996: Wellcome Foundation, £215 to attend a conference in Annecy, France
2000-2 with Dr Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth, Dr Paul Ell, Queens’s College,
Belfast: £90,000, [ESRC] for work on the geography of mortality in 19th century Britain. Grant held
at the University of Portsmouth.
2004-5 £47,500 [ESRC] Geography of Fenianism
2005 £7,300 [British Academy] Halford Mackinder
2006-7 £15,000 [ESRC] Vital Geographies Seminar Series
Courses
GIA 6144 - Topics in Global Governance: Political Geography of AIDS - Spring 2010, CRN 17820
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