Historical Geography

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 ...

Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere findi...

Alexander Nimmo was an engineer and rector of Inverness Academy in Scotland. Here his travelogue of the wild region of Inverness in Scotland is pub...

Maps and mountains, lions and tigers, rivers and oceans-all sorts of things you didn't know about India's geography Could you be related to a blon...

Kent Ports and Harbours charts the changes that have occurred over the last 400 years to the Kent ports and their associated shipping industries. I...

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, ...