Historical Geography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226333038Author Alfred HiattFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Polar explorer John Ross (1777-1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829 he set out on a privately funded expedition on...

From their earliest days on the American frontier through their growth into a worldwide church, the spatially expansive Mormons made maps to help them create idealized communities, migrate to and colonize large parts of the American West, visualize the...

First published in 1934, Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography is a critical commentary on a chronologically arranged bibliography of nearly two thousand contemporary printed and manuscript works. Poets, preachers and philosophers, mathematicians,...

First published in 1930, Tudor Geography discusses the men and the geographical concepts that enabled world-famous voyages by the British with the aim of circumventing Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of the direct routes to the Spice Islands. The book...

Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on his research was the opening of New World lands by European peoples, and this North American experience is the subject of...

The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply...

Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires of remarkable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433964458Author Philipp BlomFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm * 23mm

From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.Book InformationISBN 9780821425039Author Simone M...

Landscape is now on the agenda in a new way. The increasing interest in justice, power and the political landscape expresses a sea change occurring in the meaning of landscape itself, from landscape as scenery to landscape as polity and place. As...

James Rennell (1742-1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who...

An Irish-born adventurer in Russian service, Peter Dobell (1772-1852) embarked in 1812 on a long journey from Kamchatka across Siberia to Tomsk. This two-volume work, first published in 1830, contains a detailed and idiosyncratic account of his journey,...

How do we interpret the recent changes in world politics and what is the future likely to hold? The contributors to this volume share an assumption that history repeats itself. The book places the events of the past few years in broad historical context,...

This book deals with the geological record and the evolution of ideas concerning the Variscan orogenic belt in France and neighboring regions. Volume 1 is based on a general introduction concerning the imprint of the Variscan period on the geology of...

This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It goes beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic focus of diaspora studies to examine...

This is a captivating pictorial history map that traces the history of the famous name through rare antique maps and images back to 1820, where one such map shows the building "Aston Villa", from which the great clubs name was taken. Also featured...

This book looks to fill the 'blue hole' in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalisation and the growth of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918119Author Paul Leslie LineFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images Ltd

As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that...

Is Italy il bel paese-the beautiful country-where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918089Author Samuel BradfordPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto's two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Toronto Daily Star, nevertheless campaigned for surface...

Published to accompany the eponymous 2011 Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue contains papers, books, and historic photographs from the collector and rail executive John W. Barriger III and others. With a foreword by John Neal Hoover.Book...

It was a megaproject half a century in the making -- a technological and engineering marvel that stands as one of the most ambitious borderlands undertakings ever embarked upon by two countries. The planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358697404Author Philip D'AnieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

Many people have a great fear of snakes. This fear affects their peace of mind, their enjoyment of a holiday in the country, and even their pleasure in their own suburban gardens. It leads to the senseless destruction of one of our valuable natural...

How do we interpret the recent changes in world politics and what is the future likely to hold? The contributors to this volume share an assumption that history repeats itself. The book places the events of the past few years in broad historical context,...

First published in 1942, Palestine is a brief history of Zionism, interspersed with a wealth of observation stimulation for the seeker of objective truth. The author develops his own theories of Jewish racialism, nationalism and colonization, and...

China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918263Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

This wide-ranging yet detailed study describes and assesses the many-faceted cultural achievement of an area remote from Athens, the Dorian islands. Elizabeth Craik's scholarship sets this lively outlying region of the ancient Greek world - which...

An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918300Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior-that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in 1665, was the largest and most expensive book to be...

Norwegian-born Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1864-1934) claimed to have been the first person to step onto the Antarctic mainland when he first visited the continent in 1895. Becoming enthusiastic about Antarctic exploration, he was inspired to organise...

Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history...

Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844958Author Susan NeaveImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

"The New Berlin is a notable contribution to human geography and to the interdisciplinary literature on social memory and place making. Till's methods and scholarship have provided the conceptual groundwork for the exploration and development of place...