Both deeply earnest and effortless. . . . This book glows from within.
Die Zeit, on the German edition The book is a true pleasure to read, a work of historical pointillism, in which the layering of time and space aligns stereoscopically through the accrued power of dozens of case studies. More than an attempt at histoire totale, Schl ... Read moregel has produced a Gesamtkunstwerk of historiography, in which form, content, methodology, and argument unite in a satisfying and enlightening package. . . . In Space We Read Time shimmers with creativity and insight. Schl gel inspires the historian to see history as a palimpsest: layers of time inscribed on the spaces of everyday life.
The Journal of Modern History A manifesto for the importance of space, place and geographical setting to the historian's craft. It is also an apologia pitched against what Schlogel sees as the misleading elimination of spatial issues from historical writing. . . . Where In Space We Read Time makes its contribution is in the traditional fare of the historian: a painstaking and enlivening attention to the empirical details of the past.
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