Human Geography

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate c...

The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) is a work of Indigenous American history by George Copway. Written...

Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal ...

_Lost to the Sea: Norfolk & Suffolk_ relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their strugg...

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of natio...

Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2019 / Shortlisted for Children's Travel Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020;...

In The Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, pack...

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or ...

A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and imm...

The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal t...

Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They en...

Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlan...

A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconn...

A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconn...

When creating her post-apocalyptic world of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins drew from various real-world history and geography, particu...

Although a regional book, the subject is demolition/gentrification; how cities are changing. This is relevant across North America. Of interest to ...

Hell''s Kitchen is among Manhattan''s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side''s middle- an...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world''s largest body of water, and - in matter...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters...

Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from...

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon a...