Empty Spaces

Perspectives on emptiness in modern history

by Courtney J. CampbellAllegra GiovineJennifer Keating

How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, and seeks to foreground the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban histories.

Background image: Extract from MacDonald Gill, Highways of Empire, poster, Empire Marketing Board, 1927. Reproduced by kind permission of the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.

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