Historical geography

For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere.

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America.

Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close.

Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today.

This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975) Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since independence in 1962.

Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.

Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities.

In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states.

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe.

Sherman Bleakney examines the unusual physical and biological features of this region of the Bay of Fundy, home to the only successful pioneer society in North America to farm below sea level.

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life.

The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945.

This book examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth-century Britain.

An innovative 2007 study showing how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread ethic of improvement.

This accessible chapter book, ideal for students and general readers alike, examines the political, social, and cultural history of Chile.

This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself.

First published in 1990, this is a comprehensive atlas containing over 270 detailed and wide-ranging maps, figures, plans and site photographs on all aspects of Roman Britain.

How do regions form and evolve?

Wer waren die genialen Köpfe hinter den beeindruckenden Burgen Europas, deren Mauern noch heute die Landschaften prägen?

For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment.

Area Studies became increasingly common after World War II as a means of responding to perceived 'external threats' from the Soviet Union and China.

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War.

The first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

"e;From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.

This "e;ingenious work about the course of human history"e; examines why civilizations evolved so differently in the Americas and Eurasia (Kirkus, starred review).

An Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest).

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 37 explores the concept of distinction in geography.

What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?

Die Jugoslawische Außenpolitik und ihr Einfluss auf die Entwicklung des Völkerrechts nach 1945.

'The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in particular will quickly become the benchmark for all future civil war maps.

Was hat den Alltag der Innsbrucker in den Jahren von 1880 bis 1930 bewegt?

Das ab Band 33 (2016/17) bei Pustet erscheinende "Ungarn-Jahrbuch" im Auftrag des Ungarischen Instituts München e.

In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations.

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps.

This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place.

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of Ireland.

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.

States of Division analyses the division of Germany and the development of the Iron Curtain during the four and a half decades of the Cold War.

How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century?

Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A fascinating, encyclopedic historyof greater New York City through an ecological lens (Publishers Weekly, starred review)the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.

'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE'Elledge writes with wry humour and infectious enthusiasm' OBSERVERPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on.

An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought.

This comprehensive geographical encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 A.