Francis Williams's bad language: Historical geography in a world of practice

Historical Geography

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 5-21

  Ogborn, Miles ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY;

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References (68)

1. Vincent Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" Early American Literature 38:2 (2003): 213-37, 222.
2. Greg Dening, Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
3. Hayden Lorimer, "Cultural Geography: The Busyness of Being "More-Than-Representational'," Progress in Human Geography 29:1 (2005): 83-94.
4. See, for example, Nigel Thrift, Non-Representational Theory: Space/Politics/Affect (London: Routledge, 2008).
5. For example, see Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt, eds., Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects and Texts, 1400 - 1800 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007);
6. Nicholas Mirzeoff, ed., The Visual Culture Reader (London: Routledge, 1998);
7. Peter Jackson, Rematerializing Social and Cultural Geography," Social and Cultural Geography 1:1 (2000): 9-14
8. and Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London: Routledge, 1990).
9. David N. Livingstone, Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003);
10. Charles W. J. Withers, "Eighteenth-Century Geography: Texts, Practices, Sites," Progress in Human Geography 30:6 (2006): 711-29;
11. Elizabeth Gagen, Hayden Lorimer and Alex Vesudevan, Practising the Archive: Reflections on Method and Practice in Historical Geography (Historical Geography Research Series 40)
12. and Miles Ogborn, "Archives," in S. Pile and N. Thrift, eds., Patterned Ground (London: Reaktion, 2004), 240-242
13. See, for example, the discussions of H. C. Darby and Carl Sauer in Alan R. H. Baker, Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
14. See, for example, Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan, eds., Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text & Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape (London: Routledge, 1992).
15. Thrift, Non-Representational Theory; Catherine Nash, "Performativity in Practice: Some Recent Work in Cultural Geography," Progress in Human Geography 24:4 (2000): 653-64;
16. Lorimer, "Cultural Geography"; idem, "Cultural Geography: Worldly Shapes, Differently Arranged," Progress in Human Geography 31:1 (2007): 89-100
17. and "Cultural Geography: Non-Representational Conditions and Concerns," Progress in Human Geography 32:4 (2008): 551-559
18. Tim Cresswell, '"You Can't Shake That Shirnrnie Here': Producing Mobility on the Dance Floor," Cultural Geographies 13:1 (2006): 55-77, 73.
19. The image that I used in the lecture is from that classic text on the pre-cogni-tive molding of bodies, Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
20. See also, Jonathan Goldberg, Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991).
21. Miles Ogborn, "Geographia's Pen: Writing, Geography and the Arts of Commerce, 1660-1760," Journal of Historical Geography 30:2 (2004): 294-315.
22. For a full discussion see Miles Ogborn Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007).
23. Given the variety of textual practices considered, it might be better to use Bruno Latour's term "inscriptions." See Bruno Latour, Science in Action: How To Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press).
24. James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000);
25. David N. Livingstone, "Science, Text and Space: Thoughts on the Geography of Reading," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30:4 (2005): 391-401;
26. Innes M. Keighren, "Bringing Geography to the Book: Charting the Reception of Influences of Geographic Environment," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31:4 (2006): 525-40;
27. Harold Love, "Oral and Scribal Texts in Early Modern England," in John Barnard and Donald F. McKenzic, eds., The Cambridge History of the Book. Volume 4:1557-1695 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 97-121
28. and Miles Ogborn and Charles W. J. Withers, eds., Geographies of the Book (Alder-shot: Ashgate, forthcoming).
29. Miles Ogborn, "Writing Travels: Power, Knowledge and Ritual on the English East India Company's Early Voyages," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 27:2 (2002): 155-171
30. Also published as Miles Ogborn, "Streynsham Master's Office: Accounting for Collectivity, Order and Authority in Seventeenth-Century India," Cultural Geographies 13:1 (2006): 127-155
31. See Ogborn, Indian Ink, 82-83.
32. Ibid., 99.
33. Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998)
34. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), xii.
35. Ibid. The third volume of the series of books on everyday life co-ordinated by de Certeau, following one on cooking, was to be on talk. It was never completed.
36. Jeremy Ahearne, Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and its Other (Stanford: Stan ford University' Press, 1995).
37. For an exchange between the geographers Eric Laurier and Marcus Doel on talk and text, see "Geographies of Talk: An Exchange," Area 31:1 (1999): 35-48.
38. Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000)
39. and Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf, eds., The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500 - 1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).
40. David N. Livingstone, "Text, Talk and Testimony: Geographical Reflections on Scientific Habits. An Afterword," British Society for the History of Science 38:1 (2005): 93-100.
41. For example, Mary Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
42. and Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words and Sex in Early Modem London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). I'd like to thank Tamar Rothenberg for pointing out the absence of this work in the lecture I gave.
43. Eric Laurier and Chris Philo, "'A Parcel of Muddling Muckworms': Revisiting Habermas and the English Coffee House," Social and Cultural Geography 8:2 (2007): 259-81, 273-274
44. and Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural Histonj (London: Phoenix, 2004).
45. Eric Laurier and Chris Philo, "Ethnoarchaeology and Undefined Investigations," Environment and Planning A 36:3 (2004): 421-436
46. Michael J. Braddick, "Civility and Authority," in David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick, eds., The British Atlantic World, 1500 - 1800 (London: Palgrave McMillan, 2002), 93-113, 95 and 100.
47. Philotheos Physilogus [Thomas Tryon], Friendly Advice to the Gentleman-Planters of the East and West Indies (London, 1684), 120.
48. Edward Long quoted in Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" 216.
49. Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" 222.
50. Ibid., 223.
51. Ibid., 223.
52. The Acts of Assembly and Laws of Jamaica, Abridg'd under Proper Heads , in An Abridgement of the Laws in Force and Use in Her Majesty's Plantations (London, 1704), 147
53. and Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Island of Jamaica, From the Year 1681, to the Year 1754 Inclusive (Saint Jago de la Vega, Jamaica: 1769), 61.
54. Thomas J. Davis, "Conspiracy and Credibility: Look Who's Talking, About What-Law Talk and Loose Talk," William and Mary Quarterly 59:1 (2002): 167-74,169.
55. This is part of an extended discussion between a number of authors about such deadly talk, "Forum: The Making of a Slave Conspiracy: Part I," William and Mary Quarterly 58:4 (2001): 913-976
56. and "Part 2," William and Mary Quarterly 59:1 (2002): 135-202.
57. Michael P. Johnson, "Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators," William and Mary Quarterly 58:4 (2001): 915-76, 960-971.
58. Douglas Hall, In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Tliistlezoood in Jamaica, 1750-86 (Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press, 1999), 54-55.
59. While Thistlewood did nothing directly on the basis of what he had overheard, he did have two women, Abigail and Bella, given 100 lashes each for not assisting him when confronted by "Congo Sam." Sam, himself, was acquitted after a key slave witness, London, refused to give evidence.
60. Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" 223.
61. Quoted in Jill Lepore, New York Burning; Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 115.
62. Quoted in Lepore, New York Burning, 204.
63. Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" 221.
64. Edward Long quoted in Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" 218.
65. Carretta, "Who Was Francis Williams?" 214.
66. Lepore, New York Burning, 125.
67. For two recent examples, see Vincent Brown, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008)
68. and Steve O. Buckridge, The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1760 - 1890 (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2004).