Historical Geography

The Nile, the world's longest river system, has figured prominently in historic events over millennia. This book views the Nile as both the stage o...

A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantels bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy ...

There is a growing consensus in the scientific realm that the world's oceans are reaching a state of crisis as commercial fisheries are more widely...

The Great Western Trail (GWT) is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in northern Mexico, ran west parallel to the Chisholm Trail, tra...

The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a rive...

From longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island...

People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, We...

Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the towns original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin...

Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centur...

More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson chronic...

Traces how Canadas colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries,...

The Creation of the American States teaches readers how and why all fifty American states were formed and carved into becoming a part of mankinds g...

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of t...

Even though most people in England live in towns, many retain a strong emotional attachment to the countryside. The popularity of television progra...

'Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is rea...

Patrick Paul Hogans A Student Commentary on Pausanias, Book 1, introduces the first book of Pausanias Description of Greece to students of Classica...

A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the...

Patrick Paul Hogans A Student Commentary on Pausanias, Book 1, introduces the first book of Pausanias Description of Greece to students of Classica...

In the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition. This book...

This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the ...