Historical Geography

Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores...

Presenting the results of new research on the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrowamong the most sophisticated centers of learning and artistic cult...

Vast watercourse, boundary, and the gateway to North America-the St. Lawrence River has been an integral player in the formation of Canada as we kn...

Thinking Hinterlands Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across a 3 sq. km swathe on the west side of Cambridge, this and its companion volume present ...

In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During th...

The 20th century was a period of profound political, social and technological change. Population growth and movement, revolutions in transportation...

The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Li...

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest ...

The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a travel...