Historical Geography

The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range fr...

Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on dis...

The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a rive...

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabos life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geo...

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabos life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geo...

This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan i...

Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the episte...

This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the reco...