Historical geography

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.

Explores how sovereign space in early China was imagined and negotiated in the ancient world.

Originally published in 1875, this work details what life was like on the Upper Thames before the 20th century, the people who lived there and the trades they developed.

Delville Wood in the Somme was the most famous battle ever fought by South Africans.

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England.

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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state.

A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers.

A guide to exploring 325 of the most scenic, wildlife-rich and historically significant woodlands in Wales.

A guide to exploring 365 of Scotland's most scenic, wildlife-rich and historically significant woodlands.

This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture.

The Routledge Atlas of American History presents a series of 163 clear and detailed maps, accompanied by informative captions, facts and figures.

 Le conflit entre Israéliens et Palestiniens n’a toujours pas trouvé d’issue.

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state.

Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century writing on Britain.

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets.

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.

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Great Maps takes a close look at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth.

In March 1945 the German Wehrmacht undertook its final attempt to change the course of the war by launching a counteroffensive in the area of Lake Balaton, Hungary.

In this book, Tomas Balkelis explores how the Lithuanian state was created and shaped by the Great War from its onset in 1914 to the last waves of violence in 1923.

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa.

A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned, using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its documentation has changed through the centuries.

Illustrated with beautifully detailed photographs throughout, New Naturalist Southern England comprehensively explores the formation of these wonderful landscapes that are so universally admired.

Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.

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

Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world.

Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography.

In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons.

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

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today.

Reveals how the British Empire''s governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps.

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 Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.

Los procesos hidrologicos que ocurren en zonas de clima mediterraneo despliegan gran parte de su actividad en la capa superior del suelo, la mas sensible a los factores y modificaciones externas.

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.

This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

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

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