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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Felix Driver FBA FAcSS is a distinguished British historical geographer and Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Driver is a historical geographer with a particular interest in the history of cultural collections. He has also examined the culture of exploring, empire and imperial cities. He has overseen collaborative research projects, in partnership with leading cultural institutions such as the British Museum and the V&A.
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- Geography's Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge (1992) (203)
- Moral geographies: social science and the urban environment in mid-nineteenth century England (1988) (182)
- Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire (2000) (176)
- Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System, 1834-1884 (1994) (135)
- Power, Space, and the Body: A Critical Assessment of Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1985) (105)
- Heart of Empire? Landscape, Space and Performance in Imperial London (1998) (104)
- Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization (1988) (97)
- Tropical visions in an age of empire (2005) (91)
- On Geography as a Visual Discipline (2003) (73)
- BODIES IN SPACE: FOUCAULT’S ACCOUNT OF DISCIPLINARY POWER (2002) (72)
- Imagining the Tropics: Views and Visions of the Tropical World (2004) (60)
- Constructing the Tropics: Introduction (2000) (59)
- Livingstone, D. N. 1992: The geographical tradition: episodes in the history of a contested enterprise (2004) (55)
- Political geography and state formation: disputed territory (1991) (54)
- Imperial cities : landscape, display and identity (1999) (51)
- HENRY MORTON STANLEY AND HIS CRITICS: GEOGRAPHY, EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE (1991) (45)
- Discipline Without Frontiers? Representations of the Mettray Reformatory Colony in Britain, 1840–1880 (1990) (42)
- The historicity of human geography (1988) (41)
- Hidden histories made visible? Reflections on a geographical exhibition (2013) (35)
- Rethinking the Idea of Place (1995) (35)
- The Mobile Museum: Collecting and Circulating Indian Textiles in Victorian Britain (2010) (32)
- DISTANCE AND DISTURBANCE: TRAVEL, EXPLORATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY1 (2004) (30)
- Views and Visions of the Tropical World (2005) (29)
- Sub-Merged Identities: Familiar and Unfamiliar Histories (1995) (28)
- John Septimus Roe and the Art of Navigation, c. 1815–1830 (2002) (23)
- Nature and science: essays in the history of geographical knowledge (1992) (22)
- Visualizing geography: a journey to the heart of the discipline (1995) (22)
- Capital and Empire: Geographies of Imperial London (2000) (22)
- The historical geography of the workhouse system in England and Wales, 1834–1883 (1989) (20)
- 'Making space: territorial themes in the history of science', a conference organized by the British Society for the History of Science, held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, 28-30 March 1994 (1994) (19)
- Biography and the history of geography: a response to Ron Johnston (2007) (16)
- Shipwreck and salvage in the tropics: the case of HMS Thetis, 1830–1854 (2006) (15)
- New perspectives on the history and philosophy of geography (1994) (14)
- In Search of The Imperial Map: Walter Crane and the Image of Empire (2010) (13)
- Imperial cities: Overlapping territories, intertwined histories (2017) (13)
- Research in historical geography and in the history and philosophy of geography in the UK, 2001–2011: an overview (2013) (13)
- Charles Darwin and the Geographers: Unnatural Selection (2010) (12)
- Historical chemical annotations of Cinchona bark collections are comparable to results from current day high-pressure liquid chromatography technologies. (2019) (12)
- Geographical education and citizenship: introduction (1996) (10)
- ‘Specimens Distributed’ (2020) (9)
- Scientific Exploration and the construction of Geographical knowledge: hints to travellers (2012) (9)
- Histories of the present? The history and philosophy of geography, part III (1996) (8)
- Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818–1860, and: Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818–1875 (review) (2010) (8)
- Editorial: The geopolitics of knowledge and ignorance (2003) (7)
- Missionary Travels: Livingstone, Africa and the Book (2013) (7)
- State Apparatus: Structures and Language of Legitimacy: Review and Reply, Theorising State Structures: Alternatives to Functionalism and Reductionism (1985) (7)
- Material memories of travel: the albums of a Victorian naval surgeon (2020) (6)
- Reviews: Scholar's Choice, Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, Contested Natures, Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1999) (6)
- Intermediaries and the archive of exploration (2015) (6)
- Imagining the Tropical Colony: Henry Smeathman and the Termites of Sierra Leone (2005) (6)
- Denis Cosgrove: historical geography unbound (2009) (5)
- Geography and Power: The Work of Michel Foucault (2017) (5)
- Tory Radicalism? Ideology, Strategy and Locality in Popular Politics During the Eighteen-Thirties (1991) (5)
- Exploration as Knowledge Transfer: Exhibiting Hidden Histories (2017) (5)
- The struggle for luxuriance: William J. Burchell collects tropical nature (2005) (5)
- History at Large: Old hat, I presume?: history of a fetish (1996) (4)
- Historical geography at large: towards public historical geographies (2014) (4)
- Historical geography at large (2010) (3)
- Introduction:: mobilising and re-mobilising museum collections (2021) (3)
- 15 Face to Face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit Collections and Their Uses (2018) (3)
- :Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930.(Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, number 40.) (2009) (2)
- The Journal of Historical Geography, Reed Elsevier and the arms trade (2007) (2)
- Reconnecting the Cinchona (Rubiaceae) collections of the “Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú” (1777-1816) (2022) (2)
- KEW GARDENS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCHOOL MUSEUM IN BRITAIN, 1880–1930 (2020) (2)
- An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750–1850, George R. Boyer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1990), xiii+297, £27·50 (1991) (2)
- Placing the Enlightenment. Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason, Charles W.J. Withers. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2007), 330 pages, US$45.00 cloth (2009) (2)
- History Workshop Journal: Widening the Circle (2010) (2)
- History and totality: Radical historicism from Hegel to Foucault , (London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. xii + 241. E30.00) (1991) (2)
- Geography and Vision: Denis Cosgrove, 1948–2008 (2008) (2)
- The English Bastile : dimensions of the workhouse system, 1834-1884 (1988) (1)
- Historical geography and the humanities: more than a footnote (2006) (1)
- Revitalizing the School Museum: Using Nature-Based Objects for Cross-Curricular Learning (2021) (1)
- Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Book) (2004) (1)
- Popular science : Science Popularization (1995) (1)
- Back to the Future of Geography (1993) (1)
- Foucault, Marxism and History, Mark Poster. Polity Press, Cambridge (1984), viii, +173. £16·50. £5·95 softback (1986) (1)
- Sea-changes: Historicizing the Ocean c. 1500-c. 1900 (2001) (1)
- Book Review: Colonial precedents and sovereign powers (2005) (1)
- Conference reportHistorical geography in Kyoto (2010) (1)
- The political geography of contemporary Britain (1990) (1)
- The Contours of America's Cold War, Matthew Farish. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (2010), xxvii + 353 pp.; bibliog., index. US $25.00 (paper), ISBN: 978-0-8166-4843-6 (2012) (1)
- Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 1, 1881-1901 (2019) (0)
- Historical geography: referees and players (2011) (0)
- The 15th International Conference of Historical Geographers: Prague, 2012 (2011) (0)
- Introduction: (0)
- Book Review: Doing fieldwork. Geographical Review 91 (1 and 2) (2002) (0)
- Introduction (2007) (0)
- NANCY LEYS STEPAN, Picturing Tropical Nature. Picturing History. London: Reaktion Books, 2001. Pp. 283. ISBN 1-86189-084-2. £25.00 (hardback). (2003) (0)
- David Englander, Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain : From Chadwick to Booth, 1834-1914. (Longman, Harlow, 1998), ISBN 0 582 31554 9 (1999) (0)
- Photography and Tibet, Clare Harris. Reaktion Books, London (2016). 176 pages, £19.95 paperback. (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Science in the field (1999) (0)
- Book Review: London 1900: the imperial metropolis (2001) (0)
- Erik Mueggler, The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, xiv + 361 pp. (2013) (0)
- Denis Cosgrove at Royal Holloway, 1994—1999 (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Colonization: a global history (1998) (0)
- Commentary on Neil Smith, American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalisation (2005) (0)
- Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World, Steven Hoelscher (Ed.). University of Texas Press, Austin, Harry Ransom Center (2013), 352 pages, US$50.25 hardcover (2014) (0)
- Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World, Londa Schiebinger. Harvard University Press (2004), x + 306 pages, US$39.95 hardback (2005) (0)
- Announcing the 14th International Conference of Historical Geographers (2008) (0)
- Pamirian Crossroads: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia, Hermann Kreutzmann. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden (2015). 559 pages, €98 hardcover. (2017) (0)
- Reviews: Victorian Science in Context (2000) (0)
- Visualizing Landscape (1995) (0)
- Review (2018) (0)
- Richard Dennis. Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930. (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, number 40.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. xv, 436. Cloth $120.00, paper $44.99 (2009) (0)
- Kew’s mobile museum: (2021) (0)
- Reviews: Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture & Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook (2001) (0)
- In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon – By James S. Duncan (2009) (0)
- Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa [Book Review] (2008) (0)
- Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information, Bronwyn Parry. Columbia University Press, New York (2004), xxi + 319 pages, US$41.50 hardback (2005) (0)
- Imperial Camp (1993) (0)
- : Matthew H. Edney ,Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), cloth, US $35, UK £27.95 (ISBN 0 226 18487 0). (2001) (0)
- The British Empire at its zenith: by A.J. Christopher Croom Helm, London, UK, 1988, 260 pp. £30.00 (1988) (0)
- Referees for Ethics, Place and Environment, Volume 6, 2003 (2003) (0)
- Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 2, 1901-1990 (2019) (0)
- New Maps for Old Times (1991) (0)
- Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts, by Leila KoivunenRepresenting Africa: Landscape, Exploration and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870, by John McAleer (2011) (0)
- Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Record of Specimens Distributed 1901-1990 (2019) (0)
- Kew Museum of Economic Botany: School Letters, Vol 1, 1877-1894 (2019) (0)
- Kew Museum of Economic Botany, Entry Books 1847-1924 (2019) (0)
- Testament of Change: British Women and the First World War (1987) (0)
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