Historical geography

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris?

You're no idiot, of course.

A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping.

The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945.

The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan.

In this gorgeously illustrated collection of airline route maps, Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts look to the skies and transport readers to another time.

Climate change is producing profound changes globally.

Whether on a national or a personal level, everyone has a complex relationship with their closest neighbors.

Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a notional and perfected femininity.

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

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.

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

The 40th volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies focuses exclusively on geographers from the Global South.

This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe''s Christian kingdoms.

The dramatic and stunning Welsh coastal landscapes of the island of Anglesey are documented in this beautiful pictorial record of the history of Anglesey's coast, from prehistoric times to the present day.

Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America.

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

Explore the fascinating world of flags!

This study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023The Sunday Times Science Book of the YearAs seen on Countryfile'If anyone was born to save Britain's rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary PrizeTemperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle's most loved creations.

An interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relationship between space and society through case studies across the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century.

The first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.

First published in 1990, this is a comprehensive atlas containing over 270 detailed and wide-ranging maps, figures, plans and site photographs on all aspects of Roman Britain.

"e;From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.

Many people have a great fear of snakes.

An exciting collection of dangerous adventures, harrowing travels, and heart-stopping journeys, Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories compiles tales from around the globe that are sure to amaze.

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.

'Fascinating.

The "e;Opening"e; chapter reflects on the connection between historical and technological frontiers.

This book is an attempt to survey the natural history of the whole of Wales.

In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks.

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.

In the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition.

Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint?

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.

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water.

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.

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

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

Stunning.

Published under the auspices of the International Geographical Union, this is the 24th volume in an annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought.

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged.

The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year.