Historical geography

Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807.

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

Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development.

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier.

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

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities.

China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones.

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'.

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier.

In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other as a potentially faster route to India.

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.

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.

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.

Discover the lost towns that shaped Alabama's earliest history.

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

"e;An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses .

When Ray Whaley set out to accomplish his bucket-list goal of kayaking the length of the St.

Broadening the idea of "e;borderlands"e; beyond its traditional geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early America.

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionAmericas wettest state is running out of water.

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Book AwardStretching along 156 miles of Florida's East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St.

The Earth's surface is mostly oceans, the human body is approximately 60% water, and the human imagination has been captivated by this life-giving, life-sustaining liquid from time immemorial.

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.