Historical Geography

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 ...

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-produc...

'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, ...

Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it. Peter JamesA pe...

Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactionsall of which may vary by region ...

A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book ...

A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book ...

Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that t...

As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, ...

Ireland's landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographi...

History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance. ...

This book examines many little understood aspects of the Irish Landscape from the last Ice Age until now. Historians, archaeologists, biologists an...

As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where s...

The critically acclaimed biography Meriwether Lewis, coauthored by Thomas C. Danisi, was praised for its meticulous research and for shedding new l...

For nearly a thousand years, the Saxon settlers from the Rhine valley played a vital role in the history of Transylvania until their diaspora in th...

We are witnessing turbulent times which inspire both anxiety and hope. Many global trends are sweeping across a transforming world. To make these m...

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

Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of historians at Washington State University who designed a new foundational course for WSU's com...

'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those a...

'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those a...