World Historical Gazetteer and Recogito II

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In our assigned readings, our discussions in class, and my work with the World Historical Gazetteer and Recogito, I was most interested in relationships of space and place and the ways in which place names might reflect these relationships. In my previous blog post, I described my search for “London” using the World Historical Gazetteer, […]

A Convergence of Worlds

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Curry writes that “against the background of this rereading of the concepts of space and place, much that occurs today turns out to be a matter of place, not space. In fact, the concept of space typically operates either metaphorically or reflectively (680). Given Curry’s discussion of the terms “place” seem to be temporal geographical […]