Historical Geography

An expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region.   Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregrounds diverse communities in the region who are...

An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed gives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700172666Author Peter JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496227836Author J Clark ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bison BooksPublisher Bison BooksWeight(grams) 330g

The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however,...

The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign...

In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological,...

Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease...

WBook InformationISBN 9780821424841Author Graeme WynnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world. The Kruger National Park is South Africa's most iconic nature reserve, renowned for its rich flora and fauna. According to author Jacob Dlamini,...

For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian...

In this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after the arrival of European settlers. The pervasive displacement of indigenous people by the...

Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland's built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447103916Author Volker SchierFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832687Author Jack HoltermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend PublishingWeight(grams) 336g

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...

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop...

For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian...

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...

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...

The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location - British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in...

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) 454g

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...

Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now...

This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918515Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918812Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918539Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

Fieldwork is a hallmark of geographical scholarship, encompassing all the approaches by which we learn first-hand about the world. Too often, though, fieldwork details—the challenges, the failures, and methodological mash-up used—are left out of...

Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately-funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844917600Author Mapseeker PublishingPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Digital LtdPublisher Mapseeker Digital Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844917594Author Mapseeker PublishingPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Digital LtdPublisher Mapseeker Digital Ltd

The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences of the citizens of Strasbourg. From the turn of the twentieth century until 1945, Europe's ruling idea of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/StraAYburg the prize in a tug-of-war between the...

More than any other American landscape, the Rocky Mountains have prompted a remarkable medley of fierce, poetic dreams. For some 150 years this region served as a landscape of freedom for the black sheep of our culture: from the rebellious sons of...

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so...

From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there...

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so...

This innovative study of the southwestern Peloponnese or Morea combines the study of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical sources, and the results of archaeological fieldwork to explore the historical and economic geography of a particular...