Miles Ogborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 140848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miles Ogborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miles |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogborn |
| SIGNATURE | OGBORN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0322-3416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Drawing and Crossing Atlantic Slavery’s Coastlines
The coast is the line where the land meets the sea. There is a politics to where that line is drawn and to who and what it crosses. At the long eighteenth-century Atlantic littoral that politics was one of life and death, and of different states of (un)freedom. A late seventeenth-century jurisdictional conflict between imperial and colonial authorities over the definition of the Jamaican coast and a survey of the skilled materialities of coastal …
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century
Lucky Valley: A roundtable
Fire in Jamaica, 1831–32
Fire is a material and social process that is different in different periods and places. This article examines the fires set during the largest, and last, uprising of the enslaved in Jamaica, which occurred in the island's western parishes after Christmas 1831. It argues that different sorts of fire were central to processes of production and everyday life under plantation slavery, and examines what the burnings of 1831–32 reveal about the fight …
Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism and the uses of historical geography
S ophie W hite . Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Marguerite complaining that her master and mistress beat her and locked her up; Louison’s testimony against the soldier who assaulted her and her friend Babette by the river near the Ursuline convent; Marie-Jeanne and Lisette’s accounts of a dead baby in a pigsty in Illinois country; Démocrite and Hector telling how they clashed with the runaway show-off Francisque at plantation dances on the outskirts of New Orleans; Kenet and Jean-Baptiste expl…
Convicts: A Global History by Clare Anderson
Visitors to the Breton city of Brest can take the téléphérique from the edge of the city center across the Penfeld River to an arts complex housed in the old arsenal buildings high on the opposite bank. This cable car offers an unparalleled view of what was a huge penal-military-industrial complex, a set of docks and quays for the French navy, built largely by the labor of convicts incarcerated in the city’s riverside bagne—one of France’s larges…
Introduction: Early modern collections in use
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the History of Collections following peer review. The version of record Anne Goldgar, Miles Ogborn, Introduction: Early modern collections in use, Journal of the History of Collections, 2021;, fhab013, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhab013 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhab013.
The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, by Manuel Barcia
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity, by Emily Senior
It is well known that empire and slavery in the Caribbean from the sixteenth century onward produced a distinctive and deadly disease regime, bringing smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, malaria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, influenza, yaws, and leprosy from Europe and Africa.This almost wiped out the indigenous population, struck down enslaved men and women weakened by punitive labor demands and insufficient nutrition, and produced a ratio of fun…
Uttering geographies: Speech acts, felicity conditions and modes of existence
The geographies of speech has become stuck in a form of interpretation which considers the potentially infinite detail of spoken performances understood within their equally infinitely complex contexts. This paper offers a way forward by considering the uses, critiques and reworkings of J.L. Austin’s speech act theory by those who study everyday talk, by deconstructionists and critical theorists, and by Bruno Latour in his AIME (‘An Inquiry into …
Vegetable empire
Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean: From Fruits to Rastafarians, by Rosanna Masiola & Renato Tomei
Britain and the World: A New Field
Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, "Britain and the world." This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a compar…
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
Introducing Cultural Studies
This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including globalisation, the body, geography, fashion, and politics. Incorporating…
Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
The Journal of Historical Geography at 40
Cultural Geography in Practice
Part 1: Writing Cultural Geography Chapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State Formulation Chapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper Press Chapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical Research Chapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual Space Part 2: Living Cultural Geography Chapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in Person Chapter 6: Gender …
Discriminating Evidence: Closeness and Distance in Natural and Civil Histories of the Caribbean
Enlightenment ideas of the “the Great Map of Mankind” established relationships between historical and geographical distance which provided the problematic for eighteenth-century natural and civil histories. This raised issues of evidence for writing such histories that were particularly acute in the Caribbean, where natural history was—via the movement and transplantation of plants, animals and peoples—always a matter of “civil” history; and whe…
Introducing Cultural Studies
A rapidly changing world – in part driven by huge transformations in technology and mobility - means we all encounter shifting cultures, and new cultural and social interactions daily. Powerful forces such as consumption and globalization exert an enormous influence on all walks and levels of life across both space and time. Cultural Studies remains at the vanguard of consideration of these issues. This completely revised second edition of Introd…
Stock Jobbing: Print and Prices on Exchange Alley
In the summer of 1682 Robert Boyle received a series of letters from the depths of rural Somerset. They were sent by the Reverend John Beale, an active member of the Royal Society and a long-term enthusiast for agricultural improvement who had been part of the Hartlib Circle in the 1650s. As he had done throughout his career, Beale sought to use printed communications to promote the conjunction of science and religion in the national interest. Th…
“It's Not What You Know . . .”: Encounters, Go-Betweens and the Geography of Knowledge
Sometime in the 1760s, a Constantinople-born, French-educated Muslim arrived at the port of Balassor in north-east India. Known variously as Mustapha or Monsieur Raymond, he had, he later wrote, “with a mediocre dictionary and a bad grammar”, and by conversing with the ship's captain en route from Bombay, “learned enough of English . . . as I might delight in Bolingbroke's Philosophical works”. This student of contemporary intellectual history so…
Talking Plants: Botany and Speech in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
INTRODUCTION: SPEAKING SCIENCEWilliam Wright, an eighteenth-century Scottish doctor and Jamaican botanist, was comfortable communing with plants. As he put it in the prefatory discussion of botany for his Hortus Jamaicensis, a three folio volume collection of some six hundred plant specimens from the island:The Man who inclines to this happy turn is never at a loss for society, whether in the Garden, In the Field, on the bleak summit of the mount…
Currents, visions and voyages: Historical Geographies of the Sea
Writing travels: Power, knowledge and ritual on the English East India Company’s early voyages
Most discussions of the relationships between ‘the East’, ‘the West’ and writing have, following Edward Said, involved interpreting the representations of people and places within travel writing, novels and other literary forms. This paper argues that this restricted engagement with practices of reading and writing limits the ways in which the relationships between people involved in the global geographies constructed since the fifteenth century …
Indian ink: Script and print in the making of the English East India Company
A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative tra…
Introducing Cultural Studies
This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including globalisation, the body, geography, fashion, and politics. Incorporating…
Discipline, Government and Law: Separate Confinement in the Prisons of England and Wales, 1830-1877
Miles Ogborn, Discipline, Government and Law: Separate Confinement in the Prisons of England and Wales, 1830-1877, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1995), pp. 295-311
Local Power and State Regulation in Nineteenth Century Britain
This paper challenges the orthodox dualistic analysis of central-local relations presented in histories of nineteenth century social policy. It argues that local power does not rest within conceptions of community, or in the ideology of local possessive pluralism characteristic of ratepayers' democracies, but in the administrative structures of the spatial state apparatus. This understanding of central-local relations as part of the modem state's…
Law and Discipline in Nineteenth Century English State Formation: The Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869
It is argued that a consideration of the relationship between 'discipline'(discourses and practices of normalisation) and 'law'(discourses of abstract, universal rights and duties and their application in concrete situations) is necessary to an understanding of nineteenth century state formation. A discussion of this relationship in relation to the public health movement concludes that it is a fundamentally ambiguous one: their articulation is pr…
Uttering geographies: Speech acts, felicity conditions and modes of existence
The geographies of speech has become stuck in a form of interpretation which considers the potentially infinite detail of spoken performances understood within their equally infinitely complex contexts. This paper offers a way forward by considering the uses, critiques and reworkings of J.L. Austin’s speech act theory by those who study everyday talk, by deconstructionists and critical theorists, and by Bruno Latour in his AIME (‘An Inquiry into …
Feminism and historical geography
The power of speech: Orality, oaths and evidence in the British Atlantic world, 1650–1800
Compared with the attention paid to written texts, geographers and others have neglected the spoken word in its many forms, particularly in investigations of the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. This paper argues that considering orality as a series of embodied, situated enunciations, declarations and conversations can provide a basis for historical geographies of the spoken word that engage with representation as practice. Using e…
The Journal of Historical Geography at 40
Ordering the city: Surveillance, public space and the reform of urban policing in England 1835-56
The capacities of the state: Charles Davenant and the management of the Excise, 1683–1698
Geographia's pen: Writing, geography and the arts of commerce, 1660–1760
Love-State-Ego: Centres' and 'Margins' in 19th Century Britain
Questions of marginalization and the representations of 'otherness' are increasingly important within geography. The author explores what such representations can tell us about the 'centre' rather than the 'margins'. He does so by employing the tools of deconstruction to read a 19th century 'historical geography' of prostitution. This text, written by Horace St. John, forms a substantial part of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor. V…
Britain and the World: A New Field
Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, "Britain and the world." This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a compar…
A war of words: Speech, script and print in the Maroon War of 1795–6
Designs on the City: John Gwynn's Plans for Georgian London
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The relations between geography and history: Work in historical geography in 1997
Streynsham Master's office: Accounting for collectivity, order and authority in 17th-century India
This paper examines the uses of writing in early modern global trade in order to argue for the constitutive role of inscription practices in the making of the social and spatial relations of mercantile capitalism. At the heart of this is a detailed study of the reform of the accounting and bookkeeping practices of the English East India Company at Fort St George carried out by Streynsham Master (1640-1724) in the late 17th century. This is used t…
Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism and the uses of historical geography
Talking Plants: Botany and Speech in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
INTRODUCTION: SPEAKING SCIENCEWilliam Wright, an eighteenth-century Scottish doctor and Jamaican botanist, was comfortable communing with plants. As he put it in the prefatory discussion of botany for his Hortus Jamaicensis, a three folio volume collection of some six hundred plant specimens from the island:The Man who inclines to this happy turn is never at a loss for society, whether in the Garden, In the Field, on the bleak summit of the mount…
Introducing Cultural Studies
A rapidly changing world – in part driven by huge transformations in technology and mobility - means we all encounter shifting cultures, and new cultural and social interactions daily. Powerful forces such as consumption and globalization exert an enormous influence on all walks and levels of life across both space and time. Cultural Studies remains at the vanguard of consideration of these issues. This completely revised second edition of Introd…
Transforming Metropolitan London, 1750–1960
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History, memory and the politics of landscape and space: Work in historical geography from autumn 1994 to autumn 1995
Feminism and historical geography
Places on the margin: Alternative geographies of modernity
Teaching qualitative historical geography
This paper discusses the teaching of qualitative historical geography through the consideration of a course taught at the University of Salford entitled ‘Sources, Problems and Interpretation in Historical Geography’. The development of one part of the course, a ‘module’ on Victorian Britain using discussion group activity to interpret various sources, is detailed showing how its form is the product of the overall course aims, my own geographical …
Local Power and State Regulation in Nineteenth Century Britain
This paper challenges the orthodox dualistic analysis of central-local relations presented in histories of nineteenth century social policy. It argues that local power does not rest within conceptions of community, or in the ideology of local possessive pluralism characteristic of ratepayers' democracies, but in the administrative structures of the spatial state apparatus. This understanding of central-local relations as part of the modem state's…
Love-State-Ego: Centres' and 'Margins' in 19th Century Britain
Questions of marginalization and the representations of 'otherness' are increasingly important within geography. The author explores what such representations can tell us about the 'centre' rather than the 'margins'. He does so by employing the tools of deconstruction to read a 19th century 'historical geography' of prostitution. This text, written by Horace St. John, forms a substantial part of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor. V…
Ordering the city: Surveillance, public space and the reform of urban policing in England 1835-56
Law and Discipline in Nineteenth Century English State Formation: The Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869
It is argued that a consideration of the relationship between 'discipline'(discourses and practices of normalisation) and 'law'(discourses of abstract, universal rights and duties and their application in concrete situations) is necessary to an understanding of nineteenth century state formation. A discussion of this relationship in relation to the public health movement concludes that it is a fundamentally ambiguous one: their articulation is pr…
Discipline, Government and Law: Separate Confinement in the Prisons of England and Wales, 1830-1877
Miles Ogborn, Discipline, Government and Law: Separate Confinement in the Prisons of England and Wales, 1830-1877, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1995), pp. 295-311
History, memory and the politics of landscape and space: Work in historical geography from autumn 1994 to autumn 1995
(Clock)work in historical geography: Autumn 1995 to winter 1996
The capacities of the state: Charles Davenant and the management of the Excise, 1683–1698
The relations between geography and history: Work in historical geography in 1997
Geography and Enlightenment
This is London! How D′ye Like it
Writing travels: Power, knowledge and ritual on the English East India Company’s early voyages
Most discussions of the relationships between ‘the East’, ‘the West’ and writing have, following Edward Said, involved interpreting the representations of people and places within travel writing, novels and other literary forms. This paper argues that this restricted engagement with practices of reading and writing limits the ways in which the relationships between people involved in the global geographies constructed since the fifteenth century …
Geographia's pen: Writing, geography and the arts of commerce, 1660–1760
Designs on the City: John Gwynn's Plans for Georgian London
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Transforming Metropolitan London, 1750–1960
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Currents, visions and voyages: Historical Geographies of the Sea
Streynsham Master's office: Accounting for collectivity, order and authority in 17th-century India
This paper examines the uses of writing in early modern global trade in order to argue for the constitutive role of inscription practices in the making of the social and spatial relations of mercantile capitalism. At the heart of this is a detailed study of the reform of the accounting and bookkeeping practices of the English East India Company at Fort St George carried out by Streynsham Master (1640-1724) in the late 17th century. This is used t…
Indian ink: Script and print in the making of the English East India Company
A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative tra…
Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters
Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters Edited by Kumkum Chatterjee and Clement Hawes Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press, 2008 x+279 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8387-5694-2 ($25.00 pa
The power of speech: Orality, oaths and evidence in the British Atlantic world, 1650–1800
Compared with the attention paid to written texts, geographers and others have neglected the spoken word in its many forms, particularly in investigations of the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. This paper argues that considering orality as a series of embodied, situated enunciations, declarations and conversations can provide a basis for historical geographies of the spoken word that engage with representation as practice. Using e…
A war of words: Speech, script and print in the Maroon War of 1795–6
Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century
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