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What is a City? Katrina's Answers (2008)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. E. (2008). What is a City? Katrina's Answers. In P. E. Steinberg, & R. Shields (Eds.), What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina (3-29). University of Georgia Press

Bridging the Florida Keys (2007)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. E. (2007). Bridging the Florida Keys. In G. Baldacchino (Ed.), Bridging Islands: The Impact of Fixed Links (123-138). Acorn Press

Scale in Cyberspace (2007)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. E. (2007). Scale in Cyberspace. AP Human Geography 2007-2008 Professional Development Handbook; Special Focus - Scale (28-34). The College Board

Entries for "Law of the Sea" and "Oceans" (2007)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. E. (2007). Entries for "Law of the Sea" and "Oceans". In P. Robbins (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. SAGE Publications

Calculating Similitude and Difference: John Seller and the 'Placing' of English Subjects in the Global Community of Nations (2006)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (2006). Calculating Similitude and Difference: John Seller and the 'Placing' of English Subjects in the Global Community of Nations. Social and Cultural Geography, 7(5), 687-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360600971242

This article examines uses of calculation in the works of John Seller, a seventeenth-century publisher of sea atlases, navigation manuals and popular geography texts. It is argued that Seller led his readers to calculate overseas places as distant bu... Read More about Calculating Similitude and Difference: John Seller and the 'Placing' of English Subjects in the Global Community of Nations.

Insularity, Sovereignty, and Statehood: The Representation of Islands on Portolan Charts and the Construction of the Territorial State (2005)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E. (2005). Insularity, Sovereignty, and Statehood: The Representation of Islands on Portolan Charts and the Construction of the Territorial State. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 87(4), 253-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3684.2005.00197.x

This article investigates the cartographic origins of the idea that the territorial state is a unified, bounded, homogeneous and naturally occurring entity, in a world of equivalent but unique entities. It is noted that this image of the territorial... Read More about Insularity, Sovereignty, and Statehood: The Representation of Islands on Portolan Charts and the Construction of the Territorial State.

Coastal and Marine Geography (2004)
Book Chapter
Psuty, N., Steinberg, P. E., & Dawn, W. (2004). Coastal and Marine Geography. In G. Gaile, & C. Willmott (Eds.), Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century (314-325). Oxford University Press

Global Communication and the Post-Statism of Cyberspace: A Spatial Constructivist View (2003)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E., & McDowell, S. D. (2003). Global Communication and the Post-Statism of Cyberspace: A Spatial Constructivist View. Review of International Political Economy, 10(2), 196-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969229032000063207

Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorea... Read More about Global Communication and the Post-Statism of Cyberspace: A Spatial Constructivist View.

Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue (2003)
Journal Article
Steinberg, P. E., & McDowell, S. D. (2003). Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue. New Media and Society, 5(1), 47-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444803005001907

The internet has evolved to have a complex top-level domain name system, in which generic top-level domains such as .com and .org coexist with country-code top-level domains such as .UK and .JP. In this article, the history and significance of this h... Read More about Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue.