In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Distributed for Bard Graduate Center
Translated by Gerrit Jackson
550 pages
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42 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface to the American Edition
Introduction
The Return of Space
Reading Maps
The Work of the Eye
Traveling Europe in Diaghilev’s Footsteps
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Preface to the American Edition
Introduction
The Return of Space
Reading Maps
The Work of the Eye
Traveling Europe in Diaghilev’s Footsteps
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Die Zeit, on the German edition
“Both deeply earnest and effortless. . . . This book glows from within.”
Times Literary Supplement
“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.”
The Journal of Modern History
"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."
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