Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface to the American Edition
Introduction
The Return of Space
Alexander von Humboldt’s Ship. Navigation
Object Lesson I: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989
Object Lesson II: Ground Zero, September 11, 2001 12
“Spatial Atrophy”: The Disappearance of Space
Horror Vacui: The Terrors of Simultaneity
The German Case: Space as Obsession
Spatial Turn, At Last
Cyberia: New Space, New Geopolitics
Reading Maps
Times of the Map: The Cartographic Record of Time
What Maps Show: Knowledge and Human Interests
Language of Maps, Cartographic Languages
War and the Eye
Sarajevo: When Knowing the Terrain Is Essential for Survival
The Layout of the Ghetto of Kovno
Philo-Atlas: Escape Routes
Arcades: Benjamin’s Walk to the Bibliothèque nationale
Boundaries, Razor-Sharp and Otherwise
World Pictures, Map Images: Another Phenomenology of Spirit
Landscapes, Paradisiacal and Other
Portolan Charts: Putting Out to Sea, Sailing for New Shores
Discours du méridien: Descartes and Cassini
Jefferson’s Map: The Matrix of American Democracy
Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of India, 1765–1843
Maps, Monochrome: The Nation-State
Global Traffic: The Power of the Bourgeoisie
Jan Vermeer’s The Geographer (1669)
Giving the World a Name 184 · Sándor Radó: The Spy Who Loved Cartography
Mental Maps: San Francisco, “Home,” the German East, etc.
The Strategist’s Gesture: Scenes at the Map Table
The Flâneur: A Way of Moving, a Cognitive Register
The Work of the Eye
The Work of the Eye. Trusting Our Eyes. “In Space We Read Time”
Crime Scene: Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, 12:30 p.m.
The Sidewalk Pavement: Surfaces, Hieroglyphs
Landscapes, Reliefs
Hot Places, Cold Places
Reading Cities, City Maps
Houses, Floor Plans: Hotel Lux, the House on the Embankment, and Others Proust. Interiors
Berlin Address Books
Local Knowledge, Subversive
Railroad Timetables: Protocols of Civilization
The Fingerprint: Relief of the Body
Biography, Curriculum Vitae
Karl Baedeker’s Handbook for Travelers, or The Construction of Central Europe
American Space: The Poetics of the Highway
Russian Space: An Essay in Hermeneutics
Europe, Diaphanous
Traveling Europe in Diaghilev’s Footsteps
Topographies of Terror
Europe, a Graveyard
The Gate at Birkenau
Arrows: Changes of Place, Movement Images
Remapping Europe
Herodotus in Moscow, Benjamin in Los Angeles
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Reviews
“Both deeply earnest and effortless… . This book glows from within.”—Die Zeit, on the German edition
“A manifesto for the importance of space, place and geographical setting to the historian’s craft. It is also an apologia pitched against what Schlogel sees as the misleading elimination of spatial issues from historical writing… . Where In Space We Read Time makes its contribution is in the traditional fare of the historian: a painstaking and enlivening attention to the empirical details of the past.”—Times Literary Supplement
“The book is a true pleasure to read, a work of historical pointillism, in which the layering of time and space aligns stereoscopically through the accrued power of dozens of case studies. More than an attempt at histoire totale, Schlögel has produced a Gesamtkunstwerk of historiography, in which form, content, methodology, and argument unite in a satisfying and enlightening package… . In Space We Read Time shimmers with creativity and insight. Schlögel inspires the historian to see history as a palimpsest: layers of time inscribed on the spaces of everyday life.”—The Journal of Modern History