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Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History. Ed. Mark Bassin, Christopher Ely, and Melissa K. Stockdale. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. xii, 268 pp. Notes. Index. Illustration. Photographs. ․42.00, hard bound.

In an assortment of chapters (some previously published), Hammond explores tropes of frontier crossing to establish a mutable but enduring east-west division of Europe (in which any putative specificity attributed to the southeast is subsumed); revisits distinctions between balkanism and orientalism (though without addressing the long-running debate over the "colonial" character of the Balkan context); rediscovers Dracula as gothic template for balkanist representations; compares European Union enlargement to Great Power involvement in the Eastern Question; identifies ubiquitous, gendered, and perennial patterns in the self-constitution of expatriates and women travelers; and reviews the forms and investments of Romantic antimodern travel writing, popular genre fiction, the Cold War novel, and aid workers' memoirs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis is firmly on homogeneity and recurrence rather than diversity or specificity and on British literature's apparently unwavering complicity in hegemonic discourses of power. In short, Hammond repeats many of the insights and the problems of earlier work, including his own.