Historical geography

Climate change is producing profound changes globally.

The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name.

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

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.

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

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice.

The story of a forgotten early Christian bishop and his emergent network of churches along ancient Mediterranean trade routes.

'Fascinating, panoramic, wonderful' Tom HollandA magical book which explores how the world was seen at twelve points in history, through twelve extraordinary maps and the minds of those who made themWhat you see depends on where - and when - you are looking from.

William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564 1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays.

This volume of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies brings together essays on four Frenchmen, a Czech, and three Englishmen.

Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers.

Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography.

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.

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

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

Explore the world, flag by flagFrom Antigua to New Zealand discover the flags of the world with this updated edition of Complete Flags of the World.

Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography.

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.

As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs.

A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks.

Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map.

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.

The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the years from 1929 to 1937 included a series in nine parts of important papers on "e;Crucial Maps"e; which have been a frequent source of reference ever since for students of the history of discovery and of early cartography.

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.

Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history.

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

A groundbreaking study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD.

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.

Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work.

'Two Romes have fallen.

From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is maintained, created, and defended.

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.

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life.

Clarke covers a remarkable number of topics, including geographic factors in the choice of agricultural land, land acquisition and clearance, energy expended in clearing and planting the land, and selection of specific crops and their extent and yields in particular combinations of soils.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The presence of the once-powerful Cherokees is still evident throughout the southeastern United States in names like Chickamauga, Hiwassee, Chattahoochee, Unicoi, Oconee, and Tuscaloosa.

World Geography is designed to help students better understand the importance of geography and the world in which they live.

This beatutiful book is alavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.

The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous.

Ontario is the most populous and most prosperous province in Canada.

Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations.

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce.

'The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in particular will quickly become the benchmark for all future civil war maps.

The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.

Featuring original 1: 2,500,000-scale German military maps, this is a beautifully presented atlas of the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign.

'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world.