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Michael Heffernan

Professor of Historical Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Selected Publications

  • HEFFERNAN, M, 2009. The cartography of the Fourth Estate: mapping the new imperialism in British and French newspapers c. 1875-1925. In: AKERMAN, J., ed., The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire University of Chicago Press. 261-95 & 341-51 (In Press.)
  • HEFFERNAN, M and PEARSON, A., 2009. The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America: million-scale mapping between the wars Imago Mundi. 6(2), 1-29

Past Research

Geography, citizenship and national identity in France and Germany, 1870-1940

Landscape, war and memory, 1914-1940

Maps and the media in Britain, France and Germany since 1790

  • HEFFERNAN, M and PEARSON, A., 2009. The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America: million-scale mapping between the wars Imago Mundi. 6(2), 1-29
  • HEFFERNAN, M, 2009. The cartography of the Fourth Estate: mapping the new imperialism in British and French newspapers c. 1875-1925. In: AKERMAN, J., ed., The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire University of Chicago Press. 261-95 & 341-51 (In Press.)
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2008. Historical geography Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Available at: <www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory>
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2007. The European geographical imagination Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
  • HEFFERNAN, M. and JONS, H., 2007. Degrees of influence: the politics of honorary degrees in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1900-2000 Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy. 45(4), 389-416
  • PEARSON, A., TAYLOR, D. R., KLINE, K. D. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2006. Cartographic ideals and geopolitical realities: international maps of the world from the 1890s to the present Canadian Geographer. VOL 50(NUMBER 2), 149-176
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2005. Geography, empire and national revolution in Vichy France Political Geography. 24(6), 731-758
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2005. Edme Mentelle's geographies and the French Revolution. In: LIVINGSTONE, D. AND WITHERS, C., ed., Geography and Revolution Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 273-303
  • O'HARA, S and HEFFERNAN, M. AND ENDFIELD, G., 2005. Halford Mackinder, the 'geographical pivot' and British perceptions of Central Asia. In: BLOUET, B., ed., Global Geostrategy: Mackinder and the Defence of the West London: Frank Cass. 90-106
  • MEDLICOTT, C. and HEFFERNAN, M., 2004. `Autograph of a nation': The Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Old Trails Road, 1910-1927 National Identities. 6(3), 233-260
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2004. Commercial geography and inter-war French politics: Louis Marin and the Societe de Geographie Commerciale de Paris. In: BAKER, A., ed., Home and Colonial: Essays on Landscape, Ireland, Environment and Empire in Celebration of Robin Butlin's Contribution to Historical Geography London: RGS-IBG/HGRG. 180-197
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2003. Histories of geography. In: HOLLOWAY, S and RICE, S. AND VALENTINE, G., eds., Key Concepts in Geography London: Sage. 3-22
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2002. The politics of the map in the early twentieth century Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 29(3), 207-226
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2002. France and the wider world. In: CROOK, M., ed., Short Oxford History of France: Revolutionary France, 1788-1880 Oxford University Press, Oxford. 178-206
  • HEFFERNAN, M. and MEDLICOTT, C., 2002. A feminine Atlas? Sacagewea, the suffragettes and the commemorative landscape in the American west, 1904-1910 Gender, Place and Culture. 9(2), 109-132
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2001. "A dream as frail as those of ancient Time": the in-credible geographies of Timbuctoo Environment and Planning D: Society & Space. 19(2), 203-225
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2001. History, Geography and the French National Space: The Question of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-18 Space and Polity. 5(1), 27-48
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2001. The politics of historical geography: French intellectuals and the question of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1919. In: BLACK, I. AND BUTLIN, R., ed., Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R.H. Baker Laval: Presses de l'Université Laval. 207-238
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Grasping the runaway world: historical geography and the internet Journal of Historical Geography. 26(2), 158-160
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Professor Penck's bluff: geography, espionage and hysteria in World War I Scottish Geographical Journal. 116(4), 267-282 (In Press.)
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Fin de siecle, fin du monde: on the origins of modern geopolitics. In: DODDS, K. AND ATKINSON, D., ed., Geopolitical Traditions?: Critical Histories of a Century of Geopolitical Thought London: Routledge. 27-51
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Balancing visions: Gerard O Tuathail's critical geopolitics Political Geography. 19(3), 347-352
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 2000. Mars and Minerva: centres of geographical calculation in an age of total war Erdkunde. 54(4), 320-333
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1999. Historical geographies of the future: three perspectives from France, 1750-1825. In: LIVINGSTONE, D. AND WITHERS, C., ed., Geography and Enlightenment Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 125-164
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1999. Inaugurating the American century: 'New World' perspectives on the 'Old' in the early twentieth century. In: SLATER, D. AND TAYLOR, P., ed., The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power Oxford: Blackwell. 113-135
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. War and the shaping of Europe. In: GRAHAM, B., ed., Modern Europe: Place, Culture, Identity London: Arnold. 89-120
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. The chaning political map: geography, geopolitics and the idea of Europe since c. 1500. In: BUTLIN, R. AND DODGSHON, R., ed., An Historical Geography of Europe Oxford: Oxford University Press. 176-202
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics Edward Arnold, London.
  • HEFFERNAN, M.J., 1998. Editorial: continuity and change Journal of Historical Geography. 24, 1
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. Geographical societies. In: GOOD, G., ed., Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena New York: Garland. 273-277
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1998. Geography and imperialism. In: GOOD, G., ed., Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena New York: Garland. 287-191
  • HEFFERNAN, M.J., 1997. Editorial: the future of historical geography Journal of Historical Geography. 23, 1-2
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1997. The French right and overseas empire, 1870-1920. In: ATKIN, N. AND TALLET, F., ed., The Right in France 1789-1997 London: I. B. Tauris. 89-113
  • HEFFERNAN, M., 1996. Geography, cartography and military intelligence: the Royal Geographical Society and the First World War Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. VOL 21(NUMBER 3), 504-533

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