Paul Stock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Stock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Stock |
| SIGNATURE | STOCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1777-9463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From the Intercellular to the Extraterrestrial: The Need for Interdisciplinary Spatial Study
There is a critical need to reframe the future study of socio-spatial relations. Current constructs connected to specific disciplinary traditions are often constrained by one-dimensional approaches. The purpose of this article is to share and provoke new forms of socio-spatial study premised on interdisciplinary exchanges. Lefebvre proposes that to discuss space is to analyze the interactions of material environments, mentalities, and social prac…
Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c . 1560–1820
Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity. This article instead argues that travellers’ experiences of classical sites incorporated both physical and imaginative aspects, usefully expres…
The Idea of Asia in British Geographical Thought, 1652–1832
This article explores popular British ideas about Asia from the mid-seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, using largely neglected sources: geography books. Thanks to their popularity and focus on conventional knowledge, this genre of texts – geographical reference works, gazetteers, encyclopaedias and schoolbooks – allows us to glimpse the commonplace mentalities of the period, and consequently to understand how Asia was perceived …
How Should Historians Talk about Spatial Agency
In recent years, it has become commonplace to argue that space is an important topic in the humanities and social sciences. But what does space do? Can we speak of space as having agency? Historians’ responses to these questions are strikingly varied. Some propose an almost deterministic role for spatial characteristics, while others deny that space can have any causal function at all. This article seeks to navigate a path between these unsatisfa…
Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota
The Good Farmer: Culture and Identity in Food and Agriculture
Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies, providing a springboard for future research. The concept of the good farmer has emerged in recent years as part of a move away from attitude and economic-based understandings of farm decision-mak…
Repeasantisation in The United States
This article adopts Van der Ploeg's theory of repeasantisation to demonstrate that, even in the largely industrialised agricultural state of Kansas, USA, there are unexpected interstices within neoliberalised agriculture where industrial farmers can exercise and produce autonomy. This study draws from interviews across a range of production strategies including conventional industrial farmers, entrepreneurial, and self-styled organic farmers. A c…
Towards a Language of 'Europe: History, Rhetoric, Community
From Herder to Benedict Anderson, language and nation have been at the centre of ideas about (imagined) community. This hypothesis, however, poses a problem for analysing ideas about Europe. How can we understand “Europe” as a concept or form of identity when language and nationality are considered the foundation of imagined communities and loyalties? This article addresses this difficulty. It uses J. G. A. Pocock’s definition of “sub-languages” …
America and the American Revolution in British Geographical Thought, c.1760–1830
This article investigates British ideas about ‘America’ in the years before and after the American Revolution. What characteristics and qualities were thought to distinguish the continent from other parts of the globe? How did the Revolution affect ideas about ‘American’ space? Existing studies tend to present the Revolution as a disruptive moment in British intellectual life. Instead, this article analyses mainstream geographical works—sources w…
The Uses of Space in Early Modern History
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading
Georgian Britain: Modernity and the Middle Classes
Georgians revealed: life, style and the making of modern Britain, an exhibition held at the British Library, 8 November 2013 – 11 March 2014. Accompanying book by Moira Goff, John Goldfinch, Karen Limper-Herz and Helen Peden, with an introduction by Amanda Goodrich
The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel
This article focuses on philhellenic travellers' perceptions and experiences of Greece in the early nineteenth century, especially during the War of Independence in the 1820s. The central argument is that philhellenes – that is to say, supporters of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire – understand Greece as a ‘real-and-imagined’ space. Greece is an ‘imagined’ location in the sense that philhellenic conception of it is shaped by certain rhe…
Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research
Our contemporary social and ecological problems, including climate change, peak oil and food security, necessitate solutions informed by multiple backgrounds that singular disciplines seem unable to provide, and possibly, are even incapable of providing. The increasing occurrence of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary (MIT) research projects speak to the recognition of that necessity. But as the literature and our own experiences bear out, just …
Almost a Separate Race”: Racial Thought and the Idea of Europe in British Encyclopedias and Histories, 1771–1830
This article explores the association between racial thought and the idea of Europe in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by noting the complexities surrounding the word “race” in this period, before considering whether—and on what grounds—contemporary race thinkers identify a “European race” or “races”. This reveals important ambiguities and correlations between anatomical, genealogical and cultural understandings o…
The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe
This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical, cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the term? What does
“Repairing Shattered Thrones”: Post-Waterloo Europe and the Shelley-Byron Circle, June 1815–December 1816
This chapter investigates how the end of the Napoleonic wars affected the Shelley-Byron circle’s understandings of Europe, especially while they traveled through the continent in 1816. It focuses on the third Canto of Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage , Hobhouse’s published account of Napoleon’s downfall, and the Shelleys’writings immediately following Waterloo and on their own excursion to Switzerland in 1816, particularly the History of a Six …
“Revolution in a European Nation”: The Shelley Circle, January 1817–March 1818
This chapter explores how the Shelleys and their circle—Leigh Hunt, T. J. Hogg, and Thomas Peacock—formulated ideas about Europe between January 1817 and March 1818. During this period, Percy Shelley wrote and published Laon and Cythna , a poem which purports to analyze the conduct and aftermath of the French Revolution, while also imagining a new, radical ideal for Europe’s future. These concerns are interrelated: the Shelley circle engages clos…
“A Congress for Outworn Europe”: Byron’s International Relations, October 1822–July 1823
Upon the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars, the Treaty of the Quadruple Alliance (November 20, 1815) proposed a “congress system” to govern Europe by consensus. The signatories—Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Russia (and subsequently France)—“agreed to renew their meetings at fixed periods [‖] for the purpose of consulting upon their common interests and [‖] for the maintenance of the peace of Europe.” Such meetings, or congresses, occurred at Vie…
Imposing on Napoleon: The Romantic appropriation of Bonaparte
This article explores how major British Romantic writers perceived Napoleon in the early nineteenth century: the ideas they associated with him and the images they used to depict him. I argue that these perceptions have relatively little to do with the politics of the various writers, or with the chronology of Napoleon’s career. Instead, interest in Bonaparte is driven by aesthetic and philosophical concerns: especially the question of whether Na…
Dial 'M' for Metonym: Universal Exports, M's Office Space and Empire
For James Bond, Britishness is most often realised outside the British Isles, within the old Empire. Whenever physically located in Britain proper, he is most likely to be found in the offices of Universal Exports otherwise known as the British Secret Service. M's office is a metonym for England, a stable point of departure for Bond's adventures, and a site from which to theorise the relationship between M (England) and Bond (Britain); ideology, …
We love you Ireland’: Riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory
(1999). ’We love you Ireland’: riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 301-311
Repeasantisation in The United States
This article adopts Van der Ploeg's theory of repeasantisation to demonstrate that, even in the largely industrialised agricultural state of Kansas, USA, there are unexpected interstices within neoliberalised agriculture where industrial farmers can exercise and produce autonomy. This study draws from interviews across a range of production strategies including conventional industrial farmers, entrepreneurial, and self-styled organic farmers. A c…
The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel
This article focuses on philhellenic travellers' perceptions and experiences of Greece in the early nineteenth century, especially during the War of Independence in the 1820s. The central argument is that philhellenes – that is to say, supporters of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire – understand Greece as a ‘real-and-imagined’ space. Greece is an ‘imagined’ location in the sense that philhellenic conception of it is shaped by certain rhe…
Almost a Separate Race”: Racial Thought and the Idea of Europe in British Encyclopedias and Histories, 1771–1830
This article explores the association between racial thought and the idea of Europe in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by noting the complexities surrounding the word “race” in this period, before considering whether—and on what grounds—contemporary race thinkers identify a “European race” or “races”. This reveals important ambiguities and correlations between anatomical, genealogical and cultural understandings o…
Imposing on Napoleon: The Romantic appropriation of Bonaparte
This article explores how major British Romantic writers perceived Napoleon in the early nineteenth century: the ideas they associated with him and the images they used to depict him. I argue that these perceptions have relatively little to do with the politics of the various writers, or with the chronology of Napoleon’s career. Instead, interest in Bonaparte is driven by aesthetic and philosophical concerns: especially the question of whether Na…
We love you Ireland’: Riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory
(1999). ’We love you Ireland’: riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 301-311
Dial 'M' for Metonym: Universal Exports, M's Office Space and Empire
For James Bond, Britishness is most often realised outside the British Isles, within the old Empire. Whenever physically located in Britain proper, he is most likely to be found in the offices of Universal Exports otherwise known as the British Secret Service. M's office is a metonym for England, a stable point of departure for Bond's adventures, and a site from which to theorise the relationship between M (England) and Bond (Britain); ideology, …
We love you Ireland’: Riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory
(1999). ’We love you Ireland’: riverdance and stepping through antipodean memory. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 301-311
Dial 'M' for Metonym: Universal Exports, M's Office Space and Empire
For James Bond, Britishness is most often realised outside the British Isles, within the old Empire. Whenever physically located in Britain proper, he is most likely to be found in the offices of Universal Exports otherwise known as the British Secret Service. M's office is a metonym for England, a stable point of departure for Bond's adventures, and a site from which to theorise the relationship between M (England) and Bond (Britain); ideology, …
Imposing on Napoleon: The Romantic appropriation of Bonaparte
This article explores how major British Romantic writers perceived Napoleon in the early nineteenth century: the ideas they associated with him and the images they used to depict him. I argue that these perceptions have relatively little to do with the politics of the various writers, or with the chronology of Napoleon’s career. Instead, interest in Bonaparte is driven by aesthetic and philosophical concerns: especially the question of whether Na…
The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe
This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical, cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the term? What does
“Repairing Shattered Thrones”: Post-Waterloo Europe and the Shelley-Byron Circle, June 1815–December 1816
This chapter investigates how the end of the Napoleonic wars affected the Shelley-Byron circle’s understandings of Europe, especially while they traveled through the continent in 1816. It focuses on the third Canto of Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage , Hobhouse’s published account of Napoleon’s downfall, and the Shelleys’writings immediately following Waterloo and on their own excursion to Switzerland in 1816, particularly the History of a Six …
“Revolution in a European Nation”: The Shelley Circle, January 1817–March 1818
This chapter explores how the Shelleys and their circle—Leigh Hunt, T. J. Hogg, and Thomas Peacock—formulated ideas about Europe between January 1817 and March 1818. During this period, Percy Shelley wrote and published Laon and Cythna , a poem which purports to analyze the conduct and aftermath of the French Revolution, while also imagining a new, radical ideal for Europe’s future. These concerns are interrelated: the Shelley circle engages clos…
“A Congress for Outworn Europe”: Byron’s International Relations, October 1822–July 1823
Upon the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars, the Treaty of the Quadruple Alliance (November 20, 1815) proposed a “congress system” to govern Europe by consensus. The signatories—Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Russia (and subsequently France)—“agreed to renew their meetings at fixed periods [‖] for the purpose of consulting upon their common interests and [‖] for the maintenance of the peace of Europe.” Such meetings, or congresses, occurred at Vie…
Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research
Our contemporary social and ecological problems, including climate change, peak oil and food security, necessitate solutions informed by multiple backgrounds that singular disciplines seem unable to provide, and possibly, are even incapable of providing. The increasing occurrence of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary (MIT) research projects speak to the recognition of that necessity. But as the literature and our own experiences bear out, just …
Almost a Separate Race”: Racial Thought and the Idea of Europe in British Encyclopedias and Histories, 1771–1830
This article explores the association between racial thought and the idea of Europe in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by noting the complexities surrounding the word “race” in this period, before considering whether—and on what grounds—contemporary race thinkers identify a “European race” or “races”. This reveals important ambiguities and correlations between anatomical, genealogical and cultural understandings o…
The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel
This article focuses on philhellenic travellers' perceptions and experiences of Greece in the early nineteenth century, especially during the War of Independence in the 1820s. The central argument is that philhellenes – that is to say, supporters of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire – understand Greece as a ‘real-and-imagined’ space. Greece is an ‘imagined’ location in the sense that philhellenic conception of it is shaped by certain rhe…
The Uses of Space in Early Modern History
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading
Georgian Britain: Modernity and the Middle Classes
Georgians revealed: life, style and the making of modern Britain, an exhibition held at the British Library, 8 November 2013 – 11 March 2014. Accompanying book by Moira Goff, John Goldfinch, Karen Limper-Herz and Helen Peden, with an introduction by Amanda Goodrich
America and the American Revolution in British Geographical Thought, c.1760–1830
This article investigates British ideas about ‘America’ in the years before and after the American Revolution. What characteristics and qualities were thought to distinguish the continent from other parts of the globe? How did the Revolution affect ideas about ‘American’ space? Existing studies tend to present the Revolution as a disruptive moment in British intellectual life. Instead, this article analyses mainstream geographical works—sources w…
Towards a Language of 'Europe: History, Rhetoric, Community
From Herder to Benedict Anderson, language and nation have been at the centre of ideas about (imagined) community. This hypothesis, however, poses a problem for analysing ideas about Europe. How can we understand “Europe” as a concept or form of identity when language and nationality are considered the foundation of imagined communities and loyalties? This article addresses this difficulty. It uses J. G. A. Pocock’s definition of “sub-languages” …
Repeasantisation in The United States
This article adopts Van der Ploeg's theory of repeasantisation to demonstrate that, even in the largely industrialised agricultural state of Kansas, USA, there are unexpected interstices within neoliberalised agriculture where industrial farmers can exercise and produce autonomy. This study draws from interviews across a range of production strategies including conventional industrial farmers, entrepreneurial, and self-styled organic farmers. A c…
The Good Farmer: Culture and Identity in Food and Agriculture
Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies, providing a springboard for future research. The concept of the good farmer has emerged in recent years as part of a move away from attitude and economic-based understandings of farm decision-mak…
Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota
How Should Historians Talk about Spatial Agency
In recent years, it has become commonplace to argue that space is an important topic in the humanities and social sciences. But what does space do? Can we speak of space as having agency? Historians’ responses to these questions are strikingly varied. Some propose an almost deterministic role for spatial characteristics, while others deny that space can have any causal function at all. This article seeks to navigate a path between these unsatisfa…
The Idea of Asia in British Geographical Thought, 1652–1832
This article explores popular British ideas about Asia from the mid-seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, using largely neglected sources: geography books. Thanks to their popularity and focus on conventional knowledge, this genre of texts – geographical reference works, gazetteers, encyclopaedias and schoolbooks – allows us to glimpse the commonplace mentalities of the period, and consequently to understand how Asia was perceived …
From the Intercellular to the Extraterrestrial: The Need for Interdisciplinary Spatial Study
There is a critical need to reframe the future study of socio-spatial relations. Current constructs connected to specific disciplinary traditions are often constrained by one-dimensional approaches. The purpose of this article is to share and provoke new forms of socio-spatial study premised on interdisciplinary exchanges. Lefebvre proposes that to discuss space is to analyze the interactions of material environments, mentalities, and social prac…
Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c . 1560–1820
Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity. This article instead argues that travellers’ experiences of classical sites incorporated both physical and imaginative aspects, usefully expres…
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