My interests concern in the main, the political uses of history
a. The history of urban public health and the lessons that people try or
may learn from it - I am currently completing some work with Paul Laxton
of Liverpool on the consequences of Liverpool of the Irish famine 1845-53
b. Historical geography and identity - I am comparing nationalism,
diaspora and cosmopolitanism for Jewish, Black and Irish groups and what
they might/have learned from each other
c. History of geography - I am trying to think about how Orientalism was
used in school geography both in Britain and in some of its colonies
Gerry Kearns
Department of Geography
Downing Place
University of Cambridge CB2 3EN
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