Historical Geography

After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that...

To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787197695Author John F. PickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 198g

For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, ""City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century"" by...

David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780-1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to...

The British Vice-Admiral and Arctic explorer Sir George Nares (1831-1915) received several honours for his contributions to science, including a fellowship of the Royal Society. He attended the Royal Naval School, New Cross, before joining the service in...

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a British botanist and one of the most influential scientific patrons of the eighteenth century. After inheriting a fortune on the death of his father in 1761, Banks devoted his life to studying natural history. His fame...

In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada. In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history of how the Arctic became part of Canada and how the Dominion government established jurisdiction there. It describes the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684665723Author S R RamanujanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.

Sir Clements R. Markham (1830-1916) had succumbed to smoke after accidentally igniting his bedclothes while reading by candlelight; the task of completing this history therefore fell to his friend and fellow geographer F. H. H. Guillemard (1852-1933),...

In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the "Eden of America" in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted created dramatic gardens by the sea...

We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358171997Author Philip D'AnieriFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918492Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds; the seas and rivers teemed with fish; and, the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream. Fortunately for us, they...

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the...

This 1949 book provides a fully illustrated description, from the field, of all the Roman remains in Scotland north of the Antonine Wall (i.e. the Forth-Clyde line). It contains an introductory chapter describing the various kinds of antiquities to be...

Boundaries - lines imposed on the landscape - shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett...

Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609457662Author Gideon DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest. Those who had been away on war...

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. Posing as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760801410Author Bill BunburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint UWA PublishingPublisher UWA Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844917891Author Paul Leslie LineFormat HardbackPage Count 145Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since-in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918294Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods. This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute...

Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) established his reputation as an Arctic explorer on voyages with Ross and Belcher, undertaking long and dangerous sledge journeys charting the territory. McClintock's account of his 1857-9 expedition on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179903Author Derek HayesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870042058Author Sessions S. WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press

This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf's Heorot) to the twentieth century. Chapters 1 and 2 track changes from medieval naming practices such as Ceolmundingchaga and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918348Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918805Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

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. The key...

This book is the last of three and continues the Historical Geography of Europe down to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The previous volume ended with a survey of Europe at the time when the Industrial Revolution began and railways were...

Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918058Author George BradshawPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 227mm * 134mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639368631Author Vanessa TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 567g

In this innovative interdisciplinary work, Stefan Peychev problematizes the dominant narrative of decline and stagnation in Ottoman Sofia. Drawing on a range of sources and perspectives, including environmental and urban history, archaeology and...