Historical Geography

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history ...

See London in a completely new light in this guide to the city's hidden secrets, untold stories and special places laden with history which you can...

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during t...

Whether on a national or a personal level, everyone has a complex relationship with their closest neighbors. Where are the borders? How much intera...

How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars...

'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, tech...

The dramatic story of Christianity from its origins to the present day, told through more than one hundred stunning color maps.With over two billio...

Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and M...

Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, tra...

The Danube Delta is one of the largest and most valuable wetlands in Europe. Throughout history it has been a contested area and subject to conflic...

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. Th...

South America is an area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, and its land and people have played imp...