Historical geography

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.

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

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

Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history.

This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day.

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.

By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the "e;American Century.

The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago.

Wann wandelte sich der Professorentypus vom Universalgelehrten zum modernen Forscher?

This is a succinct survey of the numerous contributions to the history of the American west.

Three hundred years ago, Captain Kidd was hanged for piracy, but before died he claimed to have hidden a vast fortune in the Indies.

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

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.

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

A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth.

This book addresses the complex relationship between geography and political power in the context of the crisis and fall of the Western Zhou state.

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35 includes seven essays discussing the contribution made to geography by eleven geographers.

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

Reviews the palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology across the Mediterranean, from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period.

Visiones y viajes a lo largo de los siglos* Embárquese en un viaje para conocer la historia de la cartografía europea, desde el siglo xv al xix, y descubra los secretos ocultos en los detalles de una carta náutica.

Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs.

Bordesholm, Ratzeburg, Ahrensbök, Lübeck oder Cismar – in Schleswig-Holstein gibt es zahlreiche Klöster zu entdecken, die Tradition und Gegenwart auf einzigartige Weise verbinden.

This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography.

Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany's economic, cultural, and political development.

This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.

'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched.

Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book, and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes.

Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.

The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period.

Many people have a great fear of snakes.

The dramatic and stunning Welsh coastal landscapes of the island of Anglesey are documented in this beautiful pictorial record of the history of Anglesey's coast, from prehistoric times to the present day.

Jede Entscheidung, jeder Fortschritt, jede Krise – die Wurzeln unserer Gegenwart reichen tief in die Vergangenheit.

The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period central to the formation of modern Europe.

After the battle of Sedan on September 1, 1870 and the collapse of the Second Empire, followed by the investment of Paris, the Government of National Defense set about raising fresh armies.

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris?

New environmental history of borders and empire in the Middle East that centers locusts and people in motion from c1858–1939.

Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat.

Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the increasing accuracy and legibility of cartographic projections, the proliferation of empirically based chorographies, and the popular vogue for travel narratives served to order, package, and commodify space in a manner that was critical to the formation of a unified Britain.

No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century.

Trotz der zahlreichen Publikationen, die in den letzten Jahren der Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Seewege im Mittelmeer, des okonomischen und kulturellen Austausches und des Phanomen der Pilgerfahrt gewidmet waren, bleibt das Thema der spezifischen Andachtsformen, die mit der Seefahrt verbunden waren und zur Herstellung von privilegierten Heiligtumern fur die Seefahrer fuhrten, noch ein Desideratum.

Europeans who settled previously unpopulated and unexploited regions of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries of the world had two economic alternatives: subsistence activities or the production of primary goods for export.

The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan.

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.