Historical Geography

Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. Contested Territory ...

Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual ...

An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicagos South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to mov...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better histo...

A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scen...

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectare...

Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. M...

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken...

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotles works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern E...

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border ...

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historica...

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historica...

Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.'Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three mille...

This volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is no...

This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary...