Historical Geography

In 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavour arrived in New Holland, Australia, the 'Continent of Smoke'. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia ...

'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah DawsonThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural ...

Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once popu...

An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicagos South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to mov...

Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores...

Presenting the results of new research on the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrowamong the most sophisticated centers of learning and artistic cult...

Vast watercourse, boundary, and the gateway to North America-the St. Lawrence River has been an integral player in the formation of Canada as we kn...

Thinking Hinterlands Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across a 3 sq. km swathe on the west side of Cambridge, this and its companion volume present ...

In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During th...

The 20th century was a period of profound political, social and technological change. Population growth and movement, revolutions in transportation...

The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Li...

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest ...

The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a travel...

Pickup an old stamp album and flick through it. Youll find a host of exotic and unfamiliar names: Cyrenaica, Fernando Poo, Fiume, North Ingria, Obo...