CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of contributors xii Foreword xix Converging worlds: geography and the humanities Douglas Richardson Prologue xxii Geography within the humanities Denis Cosgrove Introduction xxvi Envisioning landscapes, making worlds Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser,J, Nicholas F.ntrikin and Douglas Richardson PART 1 Mapping 1 1 Why America is called America3 Franco Farinelli 2 Above the dead cities 12 Derek Gregory 3 Digital cartographies and medieval geographies25 Keith D. Lilky 4 Mapping the taboo 34 Gunnar Olsson 5 Choros, chora and the question of landscape 44 Kenneth R. Ohvig 6 Thematic cartography and the study of American history 55 Susan Schulten PART II Reflecting 63 7 Do places have edges? a geo-philosophical inquiry 65 Edward S. Casey 8 Race, mobility and the humanities-, a geosophical approach 74 Tim Cresswell 9 The world in plain view 84 _/. Nicholas Entrikin 10 Courtly geography: nature, authority and civility in early eighteenth-century France 94 Michael Heffernan 11 Darwinian landscapes 106 David Liinngstone 12 Travel and the domination of space in the European imagination 118 Anthony Pagden 13 The good inherit the earth 127 Yi-Fu Titan PART III Representing 141 14 Putting Pablo Neruda's Altttras de Macchu Picchu in its places 143 Jim Cocola 15 Great balls of tire: envisioning the brilliant meteor of 1783 155 Stephen Daniels 16 Reading landscapes and telling stories: geography, the humanities and environmental history 170 Diana K. Davis 17 Participatory historical geography? Shaping and tailing to shape social memory at an Oklahoma monument 177 Dydia DeLyser 18 Still-life, after-life, nature mone: W.G. Sebald and the demands of landscape 188 Jessica Dubow 19 The texture of space: desire and displacement in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman of the dunes 198 Matthew dandy 20 Restoration: synoptic reflections 209 David Lowenthal 21 Overlapping ambiguities, disciplinary perspectives, and metaphors of looking: reflections on a landscape photograph 227 Joan M. Schivartz PART IV Performing 237 22 Inverting perspective: icons' performative geographies 239 Veronica delta Dora 23 Literary geography: the novel as a spatial event 247 Sheila Hones 24 Materializing vision: performing a high-rise view 256 Jane M.Jacobs, Stephen Cairns, and Ignaz Strebei 25 Technician of light: Patrick Geddes and the optic of geography 269 Fraser MacDonald .LU .ueserteci places, remote voices: performing landscape 280 Mike Pearson 27 Photography and its circulations 287 Gillian Rose 28 Beyond the power of art to represent? Narratives and performances of the Arctic in the 1630s 293 Julie Sanders 29 Navigating the Northwest Passage 299 Kathryn Yusoff Index 311