Conceptions of Space in Intellectual History

Daniel S. Allemann is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, while completing a PhD in the history of early modern political thought at the University of Cambridge, UK. His current research focuses on visions of slavery and empire in the wider Iberian world.Anton Jäger is a PhD Student working on populism and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, UK. His doctoral thesis seeks to provide a new, revisionist intellectual history of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth-century United States.Valentina Mann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of the social sciences in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth century.

• Introduction: approaching space in intellectual history 1. The nation and property in Vattel’s theory of territory 2. Kropotkin’s commune and the politics of history 3. Space as gravitational field: the empire and the Atlantic in the political thought of Thomas Pownall 4. British imperialism and Southern liberalism: re-shaping the Mediterranean space, c. 1817–1823 5. Spaces on the temporal move: Weimar Geopolitik and the vision of an Indian science of the state, 1924–1945 6. Afterward: the space of political community and the space of authority