Historical geography

Maps and cartography have long been used in the lands and resources offices of Canada's indigenous communities in support of land claims and traditional-use studies.

A new pathway for positive change in response to years of misdirected human and financial resource allocation.

A critical look at how Inuit men balance traditional values and social circumstances to find their place in the contemporary Arctic.

A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge.

The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history.

The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history.

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country's northwestern border with Mexico.

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country's northwestern border with Mexico.

Clarke covers a remarkable number of topics, including geographic factors in the choice of agricultural land, land acquisition and clearance, energy expended in clearing and planting the land, and selection of specific crops and their extent and yields in particular combinations of soils.

The word mission can suggest a distant and dangerous attempt to obtain information for the benefit of the home left behind.

Deep Waters is an intimate account of the principal events and personalities involved in the successful development of the Canadian nuclear power system (CANDU), an achievement that is arguably one of Canada's greatest scientific and technical successes of the twentieth century.

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.

Using a prosopographical approach that combines descriptive exposition, quantitative tabulation, and structural analysis, Randy Widdis determines the geographical and social origins of migrants, the distance and direction of migration corridors, and geographical destinations in both the United States and Canada.

The "e;Opening"e; chapter reflects on the connection between historical and technological frontiers.

During the North American colonial period, the expansion of European capital and labour into North America created two broad patterns of regional development: agricultural settlement and the exploitation of raw materials or staples.

This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book.

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice.

Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardWinner: New Mexico Book AwardIn works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft.

Winner: Gaspar Perez de Villagra AwardThe Dine have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline.

Santa Fe Trail Association Award of MeritIn the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white mans firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books.

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlersAnd Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous peopleAfter One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history.

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe.

Lake Powell Tales-an engaging and entertaining collection of personal stories that span the decades about exploring and enjoying America's most scenic lake, in the heart of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Twelve months of visits to a mountain lake tells more than twelve tales.

Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas.

This volume brings together aspects of contemporary study of cultural geography and selected passages from prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament.

From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is maintained, created, and defended.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness.

This book introduces a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past.

This book introduces a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past.

Santa Fe Trail Association Award of MeritIn the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white mans firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books.

Charting attempts to regulate the obscene within the Britain Empire, and the resulting contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

Charting attempts to regulate the obscene within the Britain Empire, and the resulting contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

Examines the use of GIS in historical research, providing a clear agenda for its development.

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

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

Revisionist study that unpacks the modern historiography of the Crusades and reinterprets Crusader military architecture.

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

An exploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.

Examines the role of geography in the historical writings of the early medieval period.

This book provides an examination of the development of memorial landscapes in Ireland.

An intellectual/historiographical examination of the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalité of imperial Russia, first published in 1999.

The history of Hong Kong as a metropolis since its foundations to its handover to China in 1997.

Explores the epidemics of the past with modern epidemiological and computer-modelling.

This study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

A compact, authoritative guide for freshwater fishing trips From one of the most respected names in the world of sportfishing comes the definitive, full-color guide to 140 of the most common freshwater fish species found in North American rivers, lakes, and streams.