Historical geography

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.

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

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

The central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, and not by a vision of English unity going back to Alfred the Great (871-899).

Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past.

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

Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought.

Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards.

ECPA Medallion of ExcellenceWinnerCartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) Annual Map Design CompetitionThe Bible is a Story.

The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population.

The perfect Christmas gift for geography-lovers.

In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons.

This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective.

The first English commentary on Strabo''s seventeen-book Geography, the single most important source for the history of Greek geography.

Wer waren die genialen Köpfe hinter den beeindruckenden Burgen Europas, deren Mauern noch heute die Landschaften prägen?

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of `empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome.

The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'.

Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746) war Arzt, Botaniker und Ethnograph.

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.

For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment.

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.

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

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

This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

The movement of one cultural group into the territory of another has always produced conflict: a conflict which is resolved at times by the obliteration of one group, but more often by a gradual fusion of elements drawn from both.

An annual collection of studies on major contributors to the development of geography and gepgraphical thought,

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The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700.

A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century.

'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched.

'Two Romes have fallen.

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

The Historical Geography of Europe traces the extent of territory which the different states and nations of Europe and the neighbouring lands have held at different times in the world's history, to mark the different boundaries which the same country has had, and the different meanings in which the same name has been used.

From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context.

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

From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era.

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past.

The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series Volume 28 includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, Charles P.

This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

Based on the latest current scholarship, Atlas of the Biblical World features striking full-color maps and insightful commentary to make the ancient biblical world come alive.

This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment.

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

A historical geographical comparison of the Indo–Pacific Indian indenture labour experience, revealing the hitherto unexplored movements of labourers between colonies.

Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through time to examine world history through the closely related discipline of geography.

Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies with six essays on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography in the twentieth century.

The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city.

The deadliest war in history brought to life through bold, easy-to-grasp mapsIn this stunning visual history ebook, purpose-made maps reveal the full story of the Second World War.