Historical geography

This single-volume encyclopedia examines the Grand Canyon in depth, from the native peoples who have survived there for centuries to the explorers who charted its vast expanses and to the challenges that Grand Canyon National Park faces.

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

Woodrow Wilson's presidential administration (1913-1921) was marked not only by America's participation in World War I, but also by numerous armed interventions by the United States in other countries.

Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity.

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf SouthIn The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N.

Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers.

Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through time to examine world history through the closely related discipline of geography.

Into the Blue is widely regarded as a literary classic.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

A partir del turismo, se han proyectado ciudades que nacieron prácticamente en lugares deshabitados, como la ciudad de Cancún, que nace después del boom mundial de los destinos de sol y playa (García de Fuentes, Jouault y Romero, 2019), como parte de las políticas de desarrollo regional del Estado mexicano para atraer inversiones en zonas poco desarrolladas del país e impulsar su proceso de colonización, lo que trajo como consecuencia su urbanización, así como el crecimiento de ciudades costeras de litoral, con impactos ambientales que acompañan al proceso (Bunicontro, 2019).

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas.

Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.

The first comprehensive look at nature's role on military history.

South America is an area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, and its land and people have played important roles in the discovery and distribution of civilizations, resources, and nations for millennia.

Connecting the massive landscapes of North and South America are Mexico and Central America.

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England.

This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain during this period.

The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population.

Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year's Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford.

Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an indigenous diaspora .

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany-the two largest fleets of World War I-against one another for the first time.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: ?

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland.

A child would enjoy an In The Deep Blue Sea Picture Book.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound.

Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism.

World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California.

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers.

Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862.

First published in 1942,A Sun ChiefA is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C.

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty.

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence.

The last three decades have witnessed serious deterioration of major Kashmir lakes (Wular, Dal, Nigeen, Anchar and Manasbal) due to the pollution of their water and large-scale encroachment into their surroundings.

The name Dar es Salaam comes from the Arabic phrase meaning house of peace.

Los libros histórico-geográficos suelen ser comúnmente de dos tipos: o se centran en un hecho local, puntual, abordado como una singularidad muy específica, o bien, analizan procesos amplios para explicarlos desde la universalidad.

La mayoría de los países de América Latina, el Caribe y otras regiones del mundo como África, Asia y Oceanía, cuando poseen una con‐ figuración montañosa por lo general se encuentran bajo la influencia de la geodinámica externa.

En este libro, reconstruimos el surgimiento y transformación de varias playas del hoy llamado Caribe colombiano, como playas turísticas, entre 1950 y 1990.

"Este libro analiza el surgimiento de negocios, así como los planes y la preparación para enfrentar eventos climáticos (p.

La celebración del primer centenario de la independencia en las escuelas de la provincia de Cartagena, (1900-1920), es un texto en el que se intenta dar cuenta del lugar de la enseñanza y la construcción de la historia en las localidades, particularmente en Cartagena, durante la conmemoración de su primer centenario de vida independiente.

Por medio de un detenido análisis del espacio limítrofe entre las provincias de Antioquia y Cartagena (Colombia) durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, el presente libro tiene como objetivo aportar algunas herramientas para la comprensión del proceso de configuración de dicho espacio como un territorio de frontera a finales del período colonial.