Historical geography

Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora.

Anthony Sattin illuminates the passions and intrigues of an extraordinary cast of characters in Egypt.

For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe - it was an idea, an intellectual and moral space charged with the heat of debate between those trying to understand the religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time.

Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize 'Enthralling' Philip Ball'Ingenious' Sujit SivasundaramIn Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped maps and the way that we view the world.

On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments.

During the 1970s a wave of counter-culture people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia.

When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people.

The long history of transatlantic movement in the Spanish-speaking world has had a significant impact on present-day concepts of Mexico and the implications of representing Mexico and Latin America more generally in Spain, Europe, and throughout the world.

The long history of transatlantic movement in the Spanish-speaking world has had a significant impact on present-day concepts of Mexico and the implications of representing Mexico and Latin America more generally in Spain, Europe, and throughout the world.

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 the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition.

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.

Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K.

In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.

Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music.

Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans.

Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location, descriptions, and (if any) movements.

An examination of the ecological damage that has been done by several invasive species in the Great Lakes.

The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others.

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

Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.

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

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.

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.

Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras - to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America.

Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands.

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

Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint?

An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792-1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals that have been established through the second half of the twentieth century to address aboriginal land claims have consequently created a particular way of presenting aboriginal, colonial, and national histories.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations.

A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.

John Warkentin looks at the work of geographers from 1831 to 1977 through the regional descriptions of seven perceptive observers of Canada who provide very different but illuminating interpretations: Joseph Bouchette, a surveyor-general from Lower Canada; George Parkin, an educator and journalist from New Brunswick; J.

A multi-disciplinary study of two of the most poignant speeches in Canadian history.

Honouring anthropologist Richard J.

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.

How historic and modern Aboriginal treaties continue to shape the Canadian landscape.

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.

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.