Historical Geography

This special collection aims to offer insight into the state of geography on questions of social justice and urban life. While using social justice and the city as our starting point may signal inspiration from Harvey’s (1973) book of the same name, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838438593Author Robin Alexander LucasPage Count 2Imprint Cittern PressPublisher Cittern Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918096Author Thomas HansonPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines ‘comfort’ in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.Comfort and discomfort have assumed a...

This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference and exclusion. It examines Greece’s central role in shaping the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918188Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page 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 9781844918133Author James DrakePage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 227mm * 134mm * 8mm

Also featured is part of a rare 1833 map showing the first "street" to be cut through the Manor of Aston - named Villa Street after the imposing landmark Georgian Villa - Aston Villa - located on the junction of Heathfield Road and Lozells Road. Another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847842473Author Malcolm NixonImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

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

This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy. Chapters in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905718757Author Peter J. AdamsImprint Heritage CartographyPublisher Heritage Cartography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918508Author 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 9781844918089Author Samuel BradfordPage 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 9781844918201Author Mapseeker Archive PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 77Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm)...

This collaborative volume focuses on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and space. A sequel to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space, Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond shares...

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) 135g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918447Author 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 9781844918331Author Mapseeker Archive Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Archive Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive...

Muskoka. Now a premier destination for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka uncovers the connections between lived experience and identity in rural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918287Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images Ltd

This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading...

WBook InformationISBN 9780821424858Author Graeme WynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918140Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and...

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the...

Along the east shore of Ontario's Georgian Bay lie the Thirty Thousand Islands, a granite archipelago scarred by glaciers, where the white pines cling to the ancient rock, twisted and bent by the west wind -- a symbol of a region where human history has...

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...

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. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the...

Canada is a country of bounded spaces - a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a political border to the south. In A Bounded Land, Cole Harris seeks answers to a sweeping question: How was society reorganized - for Indigenous and...

This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the...

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...

Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers. For the first time in the serial's history, the entire volume is devoted to important work of distinguished female geographers, amply demonstrating how these scholars' professional lives...

Physical Geography: The Key Concepts is a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field. It provides extended definitions of terms that are fundamental to physical geography and its many branches,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918256Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to a Globalized World takes readers on a fascinating and unique journey through time from many of the earliest world civilizations right into the 21st century. From the early...

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman raises the critical question of...