Empty spaces [electronic resource] : perspectives on emptiness in modern history / edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine, and Jennifer Keating.

Within the expanding literature on spatial history, comparatively little has been said of the role that emptiness serves as a tool in the construction of historical narratives, as a condition that serves specific societal roles, or as a site of historical memory. This volume considers empty space, emptiness, or 'nothingness' to be an equal, if neglected component in the fabric of physical and imagined space, and suggests that those spaces which are considered empty and devoid of content are just as important to the social production of space and landscape as those which are remembered, celebrated or memorialised.