Historical geography

The novel format of The Encyclopedia of Quizzes provides a fun way to both acquire facts and to retrieve and retain them.

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.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock's informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.

Legal Murder is the true story of the courtroom shoot-out that occurred in Hillsville, Virginia, in 1911.

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.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

What is and what was the world ?

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.

Camel meat has been consumed for centuries, with early records dating back to ancient Persian banquets.

Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world.

The third and final volume in Tony Lurcock's series of compilations of British eye-witness accounts of Finland from the mid-18th century.

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind.

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.

Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern.