readings. The Sotadic Zone is distanced from England, and is both geographically and sexually disconnected. Burton employs a variety of distancing devices. Most tangibly, he reproduces geographical and imaginative distance between contemporary constructions of Occident and Orient, by pinning his Sotadic Zone roughly on the latter. 38 Within the Sotadic Zone, an area in the eastern Mediterranean from Greece to Egypt forms a centre of gravity, a historical centre, from which desire spreads out, threatening surrounding areas. Like
adventure over long distances in the British Empire was part of the individualisation of imperial travel. Less is known about this aspect of imperial flying than about commercial airline flying. And journeys by just a few celebrities dominate what is known about private flying: ordinary pilots making comparatively unremarkable flights struggled to leave their mark. Yet the nature and
but not all goods, long-distance networks conditioned the worlds in which people lived, how they experienced those worlds and the ways they understood them. 25 Networks fashioned relative and relational forms of space that did not accord with political borders or with physical topographies. Such perspectives recast the old geographies of empire and point to new alignments of proximity and distance measured by strength
analysis of survival are shown in Table 4.1. They are extracted from the hospital’s General Registers and from the entry billets and notes. It will be noted that they fall into two groups: one including factors to do with the child’s birth and abandonment, such as gender, season of abandonment and place of birth; the other to do with their experiences after admission and, more specifically, of the nursing system. These consist of the length of time the child had to wait before being placed with an external nurse, and the distance travelled to get there. The impact of each
sediment to the eye looks white and greasy, but to the fingers feels gritty & indeed when rubbed along the glass you hear the sound of sand’. 23 This range of information was included in order to try to overcome the distance between embodied and evaluative understandings of illness. In the attempt to diagnose via correspondence, all physicians had to engage with this muddle of information and attempt to create useful meaning from it by comparing many overlapping strands of experience or opinion, be they recipe, ancient herbal
Empires are geographically extensive. Their founding and persistence depends on overcoming the friction of unusually long distances. People and nature may or may not have to be subdued, but remoteness positively must be subdued. Links are required to create and maintain an empire – to breach the horizon, spread into new land, occupy and unify distant territory, and then to
. Movements of people shifted and changed as the regions of Britain altered their alignments over the following century of fluctuating industrialisation. Shropshire’s distance from the ports made it less likely to yield emigrants; nevertheless there were significant movements of people, some of whom eventually became emigrants. Incipient industrialisation By the last decades of the eighteenth century, the new industries of Shropshire – coal mines, ironworks and potteries – were, despite population growth, stretching against the limits of local labour supplies. The expanding
Islands, ‘an insignificant little protectorate fifty-three miles in circumference’, a distance of seven days’ steaming, is perhaps, he argued, ‘one of the most remarkable evidences of New Zealand maritime enterprise’. He concluded that it ‘shows that the little “Britain of the South” is a worthy child of Britannia and Father Neptune, and alive to the destiny of her geographical
one-way) between Britain and outlying Empire territories were astonishing personal accomplishments and were statements of the individualism, courage and heroism which characterised early flying wherever it occurred. British pilots were not the only ones to make private long-distance flights between the two world wars, but their accomplishments were seized on as signs of national strength. Even after
‘harassing’, owing to the distances travelled, long hours of work, large crowds of indigenous passengers, carriage of perishable fruit cargoes and aggressive demands of traders and shippers in various ports. 2 Moreover, hazardous passages through uncharted coral reefs, the threat of violent storms in hurricane season and the tropical heat unsettled many shipboard workers and staff in