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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.

Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide (2006)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2006). Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide. Third World Quarterly, 27(8), 1413-1437. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590601027271

While the validity of categories like 'First' and 'Third' World or 'North' and 'South' has been increasingly questioned, there have been few attempts to consider how learning between North and South might be conceived. Drawing on a range of perspecti... Read More about Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide.