Historical Geography

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

First published in 1988, Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier was acclaimed by reviewers as superb, significant, and utterly delightful. In this revis...

'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON...

When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. S...

In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. ...

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress whether political or economic has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist co...

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress whether political or economic has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist co...

From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the geopolitical placement of Ukraine drew the attention of some of Europes most influential cartographe...

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

A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mytho...

The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in...

The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place w...

Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. Contested Territory ...

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 Chicagos South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to mov...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better histo...

A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scen...

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...

Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. M...

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken...

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotles works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern E...

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border ...

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historica...

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historica...

Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.'Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three mille...

This volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is no...

This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

Reinterprets the making of the modern Middle East by studying its borderlands Evidence-driven case studies cover borderlands in Turkey, Iraq, Syr...

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Winner of the 2024 Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Ou...