Historical Geography

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the cropscapethe people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop   Human...

Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans: An Environmental History charts the development of the indigenous hydro-social territories...

Transforming the Prairies proposes a new understanding of Canadas Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), complicating common views of t...

During the process of European Integration, the European Union (EU) has progressively been established as a model of a Europe without borders, in w...

Landmark Maps of Texas features important depictions of the Lone Star State and the Americas from 1513 to 1904. Nearly 100 maps in their original c...

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the sport of hunting was transformed: the principal prey changed from deer to fox, and the methods of pursuit ...

Seeking to draw new conclusions about settlement distributions and population densities, patterns of wealth, underprivileged assistance, and land u...

This book focuses on the spatial experiences of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius and Fiji and reveals previously unexplored labour movement...

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgot...

Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects...

Judaism is a religion and a way of life that combines beliefs as well as practical commandments and traditions, encompassing all spheres of life. S...

'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and share...

How has California's landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? What can the past teach us about designing f...

This major new environmental history of the Mediterranean explores the changing relations between the natural world and human cultures in the regio...

This major new environmental history of the Mediterranean explores the changing relations between the natural world and human cultures in the regio...

In the eighteenth century a new subject emerged that was to capture the interest and imagination of scholars and the educated public for the next 1...

Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border re...

A People's Guide to Greater Boston reveals the regions richness and vibrancy in ways that are neglected by traditional area guidebooks and obscured...

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.A Peoples Guide to the San...

In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological ...

Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oaklands built environment.   O...

One of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, PlanetizenThe full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves.A Peoples Guide to Orange Cou...

Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized ...