Historical Geography

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,...