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Introduction: Confronting emptiness in history
1. ‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape
2. Amid the horrors of nature: ‘dead’ environments at the margins of the Russian empire
3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation: the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chaves’s cross-country flights in 1912
4. Looking over the ship railings: the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters
5. Spectral figures: Edward Hopper’s empty Paris
6. Landscapes of loss: the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction
7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London, c.1945–95
8. Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places
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