TY - BOOK ED - Campbell, Courtney J. ED - Giovine, Allegra ED - Keating, Jennifer AB - How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history. Published as part of the IHR Conference Series by the Institute of Historical Research. DO - 10.14296/919.9781909646520 ID - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200527_9781909646520_25 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39399 KW - space KW - place KW - absence KW - Edward Hopper KW - Connemara KW - rural KW - urban KW - air KW - sea KW - empire KW - territory KW - Empire Marketing Board KW - Biography & True Stories L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39399/1/9781909646520.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39399/1/9781909646520.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31614 PB - University of London Press PP - London PY - 2019 SN - 9781909646520 SN - 9781909646490 SN - 9781909646506 TI - Empty Spaces : Perspectives on emptiness in modern history ER -