Historical geography

A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh.

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continents principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce.

Prepare yourself for quite a journey!

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the RenaissanceIn 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean.

In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree - travelled to Britain and other parts of the world.

The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century.

Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services.

Pedro de Alvarado is best known as the right-hand man of Hernando Cortes in the conquest of Mexico (1519-21) and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala some years later.

Pedro de Alvarado is best known as the right-hand man of Hernando Cortes in the conquest of Mexico (1519-21) and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala some years later.

Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.

Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature.

George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade.

What does it mean to be a white settler on land taken from peoples who have lived there since time immemorial?

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities.

Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885.

HawaiE i Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands.

El libro Historia urbana de la ciudad de La Paz, Baja California Sur, México se diseñó como un trabajo multidisciplinar de divulgación a partir de un proyecto de investigación permanente que se lleva a cabo en el Centro de Documentación de Historia Urbana (CEDOHU-UABCS) adscrito al Departamento Académico de Economía de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur: "Historia urbana: economía, ciudad y patrimonio cultural".

El libro presenta una valiosa labor de investigación, documentación y análisis de cuatro localidades del municipio de La Paz (Baja California Sur, México): La Paz, Todos Santos, El Triunfo y San Antonio; llevaba a cabo por miembros del Colectivo de Historia Urbana del Centro de Documentación de Historia Económica y Política de Baja California Sur.

Los cronistas se dedican a hacer crónica urbana de la ciudad, contado su historia, de sus calles y callejones, de sus edificios, de la vida cotidiana de los pobladores, de los vocablos locales, de los personajes ilustres de la ciudad, entre otros temas; pero, en esta ocasión, un grupo de cronistas paceños, acostumbrados a escribir sobre las historias de otros, contarán su historia personal con la ciudad.

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.

Winner, 2022 RUSA Outstanding Reference SourceThis encyclopedia provides readers with a comprehensive look at the Galapagos Islands, from the wildlife and scientists that made them famous to the challenges and issues the islands face today.

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

One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.

This is the first of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms.

This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms.

An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century.

The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective.

This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms.

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia.

Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC.

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.

What is and what was the world ?

In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions.

In Australia, a tribe of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people.

In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality the flow of moment-to-moment existence and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study.

Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century.

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions.

Indigeneity has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences.

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters.

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception.

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.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

If you can identify all these landmarks, then half of the job is already done.

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments.