Historical Geography

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. Th...

In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materia...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city. In East Berlin, where the historic core of ...

A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the w...

To join a conversation, one must know what is being said. Writing Early America is a field report on the current state of the historiography on th...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offere...

Few maritime landscapes in the Great Lakes remain so deeply and clearly inscribed by successive cultures as the St. Clair system—a river, delta, an...

International Relations and History were once academic fields sharing a common concern with the affairs of empires, states, and nations. Over the c...

A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2024The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castl...

Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual ...

An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to mo...

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectare...