Michael Heffernan
British historical geographer
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- Bachelors Geography University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael John Heffernan is a historical geographer and academic. Since 1999, he has been Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. Career Michael Heffernan was awarded a PhD at St John's College, Cambridge in 1987 for his thesis on The Politics of Literacy: Cultural Change and Political Responses in Nineteenth-Century Provincial France. Heffernan joined Loughborough University as a lecturer in 1985, and was promoted to senior lecturer five years later, then to a readership in 1995. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham.
Michael Heffernan 's Published Works
Published Works
- For Ever England: the Western Front and the Politics of Remembrance in Britain (1995) (123)
- The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics (1998) (108)
- Geography, Cartography and Military Intelligence: The Royal Geographical Society and the First World War (1996) (103)
- Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940 (1996) (75)
- The Past Is a Foreign Country—Revisited (2015) (65)
- After the Ruins: Restoring the Countryside of Northern France after the Great War (1997) (56)
- Cultural memories : the geographical point of view (2011) (45)
- The Politics of the Map in the Early Twentieth Century (2002) (41)
- A State Scholarship: The Political Geography of French International Science during the Nineteenth Century (1994) (40)
- Colonialism and Development in the Contemporary World (1991) (36)
- Mobilising the elective diaspora: US-German academic exchanges since 1945 (2015) (34)
- “A Dream as Frail as Those of Ancient Time”: The in-Credible Geographies of Timbuctoo (2001) (32)
- Research travel and disciplinary identities in the University of Cambridge, 1885–1955 (2012) (30)
- History, Geography and the French National Space: The Question of Alsace‐Lorraine, 1914‐18 (2001) (28)
- Introduction: Historical geographies of internationalism, 1900–1950 (2015) (27)
- The Limits of Utopia: Henri Duveyrier and the Exploration of the Sahara in the Nineteenth Century (1989) (27)
- FIN DE SIÈCLE, FIN DU MONDE? : On the origins of European geopolitics, 1890–1920 (2002) (25)
- From Geo-Strategy to Geo-Economics: The ‘Heartland’ and British Imperialism Before and After MacKinder (2006) (22)
- Balancing visions: comments on Gearoid O'Tuathail's critical geopolitics (2000) (21)
- A Feminine Atlas? Sacagewea, the Suffragettes and the Commemorative Landscape in the American West, 1904-1910 (2002) (20)
- French and Algerian Identities from Colonial Times to the Present: A Century of Interaction (1993) (17)
- Structure and Mobility: the Men and Women of Marseille, 1820–1870, William H. Sewell. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1985), xvi, +377. £29·00 and $44·50 (1987) (17)
- MARS AND MINERVA: CENTRES OF GEOGRAPHICAL CALCULATION IN AN AGE OF TOTAL WAR (2000) (16)
- Mobilities of knowledge: an introduction (2017) (15)
- Cartographic Ideals and geopolitical realities: international maps of the world from the 1890s to the present (2006) (14)
- Degrees of influence: the politics of honorary degrees in the universities of oxford and cambridge, 1900–2000 (2007) (13)
- Mobilities of knowledge (2017) (13)
- On geography and progress: Turgot's plan d'un ouvrage sur la géographie politique (1751) and the origins of modern progressive thought (1994) (13)
- THE PARISIAN POOR AND THE COLONIZATION OF ALGERIA DURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC (1989) (12)
- A land fit for heroes : essays in the human geograpy of inter-war Britain (1988) (12)
- The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America: Million-Scale Mapping between the Wars (2009) (12)
- Cultural Memories: An Introduction (2011) (11)
- Interventions in the political geographies of 'area' (2017) (11)
- Professor Penck's Bluff: Geography, Espionage and Hysteria in World War I (2000) (11)
- The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2021) (11)
- Globalizing Cartography? The International Map of the World, the International Geographical Union, and the United Nations (2015) (9)
- The End of Atlanticism: Habermas, Derrida and the Meaning of Europe in the Twenty-first Century (2005) (9)
- Wissenschaftsatlas of Heidelberg University: Spatio-Temporal Relations of Academic Knowledge Production (2013) (8)
- The desert in French orientalist painting during the nineteenth century (1991) (8)
- A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century (2014) (7)
- ‘The map that would save Europe’: Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display (2018) (6)
- Geography, empire and National Revolution in Vichy France (2005) (6)
- A French Colonial Controversy: Captain Roudaire and the Saharan Sea (1988) (5)
- ‘Autograph of a Nation’: The Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Old Trails Road, 1910–1927 (2004) (5)
- :The Role of Geographer and Natural Scientist Henri François Pittier (1857–1950) in the Evolution of Geography as a Science in Costa Rica. (2007) (5)
- The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography (2020) (5)
- The interrogation of Sándor Radó: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War (2015) (4)
- Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France (2014) (4)
- Geographies of the University (2018) (4)
- A Paper City: On History, Maps, and Map Collections in 18th and 19th Century Paris (2014) (4)
- Geographies of the University: An Introduction (2018) (3)
- Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster (2009) (3)
- Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait (2016) (2)
- Introduction: People, Places, and Ideas in the History of Cartography (2014) (2)
- History/Archive/Memory: A Historical Geography of the US Naval Memorial in Brest, France (2011) (2)
- ‘A small town of character’: locating a new Scottish university, 1963-1965 (2018) (2)
- The Geography of Ignorance in Early-Modern France: A Response to Siddle (1988) (2)
- The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century, John M. Merriman. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1985), xx, + 332.£27.50 (1987) (1)
- Unity in bronze: German universities and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society (2021) (1)
- Body mass index affects outcomes after vertebral body tethering surgery (2022) (1)
- New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century, Simon Naylor, James R. Ryan (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, New York (2010), 272 pages, US$89.50 hardback (2012) (1)
- Revealing the ‘Lost World’: The American Geographical Society and the Mapping of Roraima during the 1930s (2015) (1)
- Degrees of Influence: The Politics of Honorary Degrees in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1900–2000 (2008) (1)
- Literacy and the life‐cycle in nineteenth‐century provincial France: some evidence from the département of Ille‐et‐Vilaine (1992) (1)
- The Cambridge Survey of World Migration: European colonization and settlement (1995) (1)
- The Image of Europe: Visualizing Europe in Cartography and Iconography throughout the Ages. By Michael Wintle (2012) (1)
- Shifting Sands: The Trans-Saharan Railway (2011) (1)
- Remapping Modern Germany After National Socialism, 1945–1961 (2018) (1)
- From Geostrategy to Geo-Economics (2013) (1)
- The European geographical imagination : Hettner-Lecture 2006 (2007) (1)
- Halford Mackinder, the ‘Geographical Pivot’, and British Perceptions of Central Asia (2020) (1)
- The Tour de France: A Cultural History, Christopher S. Thompson. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles (2006), 385 pages, £18.95 hardback (2007) (0)
- The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. By Mary Sponberg Pedley. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2005. xvii + 345. £28.00. ISBN 0 226 65341 2. (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews : War machine. The rationalisation of slaughter in the modem age. By Daniel Pick. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1993. viii + 292 pp. £19.95, cloth. ISBN 0 300 05417 3 (1995) (0)
- Farce and Fantasy: Popular Entertainment in Eighteenth-century Paris, Robert M. Isherwood. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1986), ix, +324. £26.30 (1989) (0)
- Richard Oliver, The Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century: maps, money and the growth of government (London: The Charles Close Society, 2014. Pp. xxvii+607. 75 figs. 33 illus. ISBN 9781870598323 Hbk. £45.00) (2016) (0)
- Colonialism and development in the contemporary world. Joint Meeting of the Historial Geography Research Group and the Developing Areas Research Group, Institute of British Geographers, Coventry Polytechnic, 4 January 1989 (1989) (0)
- Rogues, rascals and rude books: policing the popular book trade in early-nineteenth-century France (1990) (0)
- The Spaces of Science and Sciences of Space: Geography and Astronomy in the Paris Academy of Sciences (2015) (0)
- Research resource reviews: Lyle, L. and McCallam, D., editors 2008: Histoires de la terre: earth sciences and French culture 1740—1940. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi. 272 pp. 54 paper. ISBN: 978 90 420 2477 9 (2010) (0)
- Childhood in nineteenth-century France: Work, health and education among the classes populaires: Colin Heywood, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 324. £30.00) (1990) (0)
- Integrated IT platform for highly efficient operation in virtual server environment (特集 Big Dataにより新たな価値を創出する次世代ITプラットフォーム) (2011) (0)
- Growth-preserving instrumentation in early-onset scoliosis patients with multi-level congenital anomalies (2021) (0)
- Towards an historical geography of international conferencing (2022) (0)
- The Spaces of Science and Sciences of Space (2015) (0)
- Between History and Geography (2020) (0)
- Michael A. Osborne, Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism . Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi + 216. ISBN 0-253-34266-X. £32.50. (1996) (0)
- Compositions a liberation intermittente de milnaciprane (2003) (0)
- Colonialism and Development in the Contemporary-World - Dixon,c, Heffernan,mj (1994) (0)
- 10. Edme Mentelle’s Geographies and the French Revolution (2019) (0)
- Review of The Idea of European Unity, by Derek Heater; A Rural Society After the Black Death, by L. R. Poos; A Measure of Wealth, by D. E. Ginter;... (1993) (0)
- Reconstruction and Display of a Nineteenth Century Landscape Model (2014) (0)
- Book reviews : Green, N. 1990: The spectacle of nature: land scape and bourgeois culture in nineteenth-cen tury France. Manchester: Manchester University Press. x + 240 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 0 7190 2843 4 (1992) (0)
- ReviewProving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving, Scott Kirsch, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (2005), 257 pages, US$39.95 hardback (2007) (0)
- France and decolonisation 1900–1960 (1992) (0)
- William Carlos Williams' Paterson : the theory and poem (1971) (0)
- Referees 2010–2011 (2011) (0)
- The dissolution of the colonial empires: Franz Ansprenger, (London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. vi + 337. £12.95 paperback) (1990) (0)
- Editorial: Grasping the runaway world: historical geography and the Internet (2000) (0)
- Romantic Geographies, University of Glasgow, Centre for European Romanticism, 27–30 September 1994 (1995) (0)
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