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Hidden Histories of Exploration (Royal Holloway/RGS-IBG, 2009), with L Jones

Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2005), co-edited with L Martins.

Landing: Eight Collaborative Projects between Artists and Geographers (Royal Holloway, 2002), 64pp, with C Nash, K Prendergast and I Swenson.

Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire (Blackwell Publishers, 2001)

Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Manchester University Press, 1999), edited with D Gilbert.

Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System, 1834-1884 (Cambridge University Press, 1993, 2004).

Selected Articles

‘In search of the imperial map: Walter Crane and the image of empire’, History Workshop Journal 69 (2010), 146-57.
 
‘The mobile museum: collecting and circulating Indian textiles in Victorian Britain’, with S Ashmore, Victorian Studies 2010, in press.
 
 ‘Charles Darwin and the geographers: unnatural selection’ (commentary), Environment & Planning A  42 (2010), 1-4.

 ‘Modern explorers’ in S Naylor and J Ryan (eds) New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century, I. B. Tauris: London (2010), 241-249.

‘Geography and vision: Denis Cosgrove, 1948-2008’, Environment and Planning A, 40 (2008) 1779-82.

'John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1815–1830', with L Martins, History Workshop Journal, 54 (2002), 144 - 161
 
‘Global times and spaces: on historicizing the global’, History Workshop Journal, 64 (2007)

 ‘Shipwreck and salvage in the tropics: the case of HMS Thetis, 1830-1854’, with L Martins, Journal of Historical Geography, 32 (2006), 539-62.
 
‘Applicants for admission to a casual ward, by Luke Fildes, 1874’, Virtual Picture Gallery, July 2006, 1,400 words,
 
‘The active life: the explorer as biographical subject’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Oct 2005, 3,505 words.

'Hints to travellers: La Royal Geographical Society e la cultura dell'esplorazione', in M. Bossi & C. Greppi (eds), Viaggi e Scienza: Le istruzioni scientifiche per i viaggiatori nei secoli XVII-XIX (Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G. P. Vieusseux, Studi 13, Leo Olschki, 2005), 243-57 .

'Geographical knowledge, exploration and empire', in N Thrift and S Whatmore (eds), Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2004), vol. 1 (extract from Geography Militant), 132-52.

‘Distance & disturbance: travel, exploration and knowledge in the nineteenth century’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 14 (2004), 73-92.

'Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 52, 214-220.

‘Constructing the tropics', edited with Brenda Yeoh, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21 (2000), 1-98.

'Imaginative geographies' in Introducing Human Geographies (Arnold, 1999), edited by Philip Crang, Paul Cloke and Mark Goodwin.

'Heart of empire? Landscape, space and performance in imperial London' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16 (1998) 11-28, with David Gilbert.

'Bodies in space: Foucault's account of disciplinary power' in Trevor Barnes and Derek Gregory, eds, Reading Human Geography: The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry, Arnold, 1997, 279-289.

'David Livingstone and the culture of exploration in mid-Victorian Britain' in John MacKenzie (ed) David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa (National Portrait Gallery,London, 1996) 109-138.

'Geographical education and citizenship', edited with Avril Maddrell, Journal of Historical Geography 22 (1996) 371-442.

'Rethinking the idea of place' (with Raphael Samuel), History Workshop Journal 39 (1995) v-vii.

'Visualising geography: A journey to the heart of the discipline' Progress in Human Geography 19 (1995) 123-134.

'Geographical traditions', Transactions IBG 20 (1995) 403-422.