Historical Geography

When Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry issued the first volume of his America series in 1590, the New World was, for most Europeans, t...

Global knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on t...

The many attempts by navigators to find a Northwest Passage via its Pacific portal all ended in failure; however, their discoveries spurred expansi...

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias schol...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human...

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the u...

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and Americ...

'A delightful storybook . . . a portrait of our whole world created from the contents of the ground' Literary Review'A real cabinet of curiosities...

This book examines the relationship between Ukraines Galician Hutsuls and the Carpathian landscape between 1848 and 1939. The author analyzes the i...

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 37 explores the concept of distinction in geography. Through the lives of six geographers working i...

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the u...

The true soul of this new exhibition has been encapsulated within a single book, a treasure trove of stories, images, and insights that brought the...