Historical Geography

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...

The acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of historys greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurers death-d...

The so-called land question dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach investigating Abori...

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

This book examines the forms of estate management in the countryside of Florence and Lucca between the eleventh and the middle of the thirteenth ce...

How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher ...

The impact of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic voyage launched an unprecedented explosion of European exploration. Throughout the last...

In the nineteenth century, the exploration and settlement of the West exploded. During the 58 years between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil Wa...

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

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical ...

This collaborative volume focuses on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and space. A sequel to Imperial Geographies i...

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

This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first centur...

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

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 ...

People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to ...

A lively new translation of Strabos complete Geographyan encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CEconnecting it with the worl...

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by...

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...

The Christian Topography is the only extant Greek treatise both written and illustrated in the sixth century, although known only through later cop...

Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famou...

In the eighteenth century, multiple migratory groups with competing political ambitions converged on the Mekong plains. In the frontier region, lit...