Historical geography

From Sunday Times bestselling author and Richard & Judy Book Club pick David Mark, a thrilling historical adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas.

Arthwyr ap Meurig, der wahre König Arthur, im Schatten der Normannen & Franken, ist meine deutsche Übersetzung der historischen Bücher von Wilson & Blackett.

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions.

What is and what was the world ?

Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century.

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters.

Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history.

Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history.

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 First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.

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 First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes.

The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact.

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

Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination.

A New Statesman Book of the Year London.

Indigeneity has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences.

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects.

In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectric plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories.

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

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 .

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia.

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

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

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

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

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

This volume focuses on the past, current and future success of Maori and Pasifika peoples in tertiary education within Aotearoa New Zealand.

A visual history of the many peoples who've inhabited and shaped Britain, from hunter-gatherers to Celts, Vikings, Normans, and modern immigrants.

A visual history of the many peoples who've inhabited and shaped Britain, from hunter-gatherers to Celts, Vikings, Normans, and modern immigrants.

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000.

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.

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.

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).

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).

A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr.

Rivers figure prominently in a nation s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures.

In Australia, a tribe of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people.

In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded.

People living in Ireland do not expect to encounter a tornado.

"e;Warrior Women"e; makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people.

Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points.

Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image.

The truth about what happened on Sir John Franklins ill-fated Arctic expedition of 184548 has been shrouded in mystery for 165 years.

At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney, Australia, to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned.

The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario's earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled.