Historical Geography

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Art, in its many forms, has long played an important role in people's imagination, experience and remembrance of places, cultures and travels as well as in their motivation to travel. Travel and tourism, on the other hand, have also inspired numerous...

Matthew Hannah's book focuses on late nineteenth-century America, the period of transformation which followed the Civil War and gave birth to the twentieth century. This was a time of industrialization and urbanization. Immigration was on the increase...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918454Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Format PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images Ltd

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective...

One of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, PlanetizenThe full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves.A People's Guide to Orange County is an alternative tour guide that documents sites of oppression, resistance, struggle, and...

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...

Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918270Author 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 9781844918171Author 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 9781844918324Author 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 9781844918126Author John HancoxPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

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...

First published in English in 1890, this book by Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) recounts the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, an expedition that took two months. Learning from previous failed attempts,...

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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...

Vitus Bering (1681-1741) was a Danish-born Russian navigator. He enlisted in the Russian navy and fought during the Great Northern War (1700-21) against the Swedish Empire. In 1725 he received a commission from Peter the Great to discover whether there...

Maps have always been a fundamental tool in archaeological practice, and their prominence and variety have increased along with a growing range of digital technologies used to collect, visualise, query and analyse spatial data. However, unlike in other...

Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of...

Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century, and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are well known, far less is understood about how small...

In 1829, Thomas Simpson (1808-1840), born in Dingwall, Scotland, joined the fur-trading Hudson's Bay Company. Under its auspices, he was the junior officer of a successful survey expedition along the North-West Passage, beyond the limits of Franklin's...

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Ascend to the stars via a famously dazzling 17th-century atlas of 29 double-folio celestial maps, created by a master cartographer and cosmologer. Representing thinkers from Ptolemy to Copernicus, the richly adorned skies, ornate borders and...

This book provides readers with a thorough grounding in a sub-discipline that revisits the past through a geographical lens. It encourages the reader to pursue researching the past in a usable manner, reflecting on the role of the past in the present and...

This book provides readers with a thorough grounding in a sub-discipline that revisits the past through a geographical lens. It encourages the reader to pursue researching the past in a usable manner, reflecting on the role of the past in the present and...

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In this fascinating and innovative study - the outcome of several decades of research - systematic field survey and the analysis of aerial photographs and Lidar images are combined with the evidence of early maps and documents to reconstruct the...

When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from history’s great explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and Florida to Brazil, his engravings captivated the European imagination with freshly discovered landscapes, customs,...

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the world’s urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has been widely debated, we...

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An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the world’s urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has been widely debated, we...

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Maps have played a central role in our understanding of what and where the north is. At the same time, the northernmost reaches of our world have, for much of history, been difficult to navigate and verify, from the mythical islands on medieval maps to...

First published in 1925, Historical Geography of England and Wales gives a picturesque account of what has come to be recognized as the ‘Historical Geography’ of Britain south of the Tweed. This book will be a valuable resource for students and...

First published in 1984, The Industrial Geography of Canada provides a comprehensive overview of the Canadian industry. It introduces Canada’s physical and human resources, describes the settlement pattern and charts the development of industry from 1945.

Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize 'Enthralling' Philip Ball 'Ingenious' Sujit Sivasundaram In Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped...

Deeside, the southern border of the Northeast shires of Aberdeen and Banff, is very much frontier country - its lonely passes through a barely penetrable mountain range were of massive strategic importance for centuries. The legions of Emperor Septimus...