Historical Geography

John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541702271Author Peter GleickFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 48mm

'Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.'Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny The Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition-but they were...

"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities...

Savannas form one of the largest and most important of the world's ecological zones. Covering one fifth of the Earth's land surface, they are home to some of the world's most iconic animals and form an extremely important global resource for plants and...

Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived, the area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451691672Author Eric WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

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This book examines the landscape archaeology of the Second World War on the section of the east coast of England known as the Suffolk Sandlings (the coastal strip from Lowestoft to Felixstowe), an area unusually rich in military archaeology. It was in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844798Author Alan GodfreyImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423200Author Robert M. SchochFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028258Author Lauret SavoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 17mm

The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon...

A brand new clan map of Scotland with over 150 clans from Waverley Books. And on the back, illustrated in colour: Sir Walter Scott's role in the tartan revival; clan badges, crests, and mottoes; how to wear a belted plaid or "the great kilt"; what a clan...

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of...

"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the...

"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the...

Although the history of orchards and fruit varieties is of great popular interest, there have been few academic treatments of the subject. This book presents results from a three-year project, 'Orchards East', investigating the history and ecology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483326Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241734Author Hugh RafflesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

Migration and Empire provides a unique comparison of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants. During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918485Author Mapseeker Archive Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Archive Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackImprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

This book offered the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps...

Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding...

A full colour map, based on digitised OS maps of Swansea of about 1919, with its medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. The map includes an inset map of Mumbles and its medieval castle. In the Middle Ages, Swansea (Abertawe)...

These photos o Kings Cross will fascinate anyone interested in London's lost local history, or who knew this area of Victorian buildings - and particularly the gasholders - between St Pancreas Stations, before this city landscape disappeared forever.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628628593Author Rose PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Rose PublishingPublisher Rose Publishing

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...

Throughout history people have sought ways in which to map the heavens. From the sources of mathematics and mythology sprang the classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both scientific documents and works of art. In this beautifully...

In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor...

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,...

The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third...

To what extent has a North-South divide been a structural feature of England's geography during the last millennium and to what extent has it been especially associated with, and recognized during, particular periods in the past? These are the central...

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...

The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This...

DO YOU KNOW THE STORY OF YOUR STATE? You were born in an Indian state. You went to school in an Indian state. You live and work in an Indian state. You, like every other Indian, call at least one state home. Your state is a big part of your identity...

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed...

The tithe surveys of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales marked a new departure in government-sponsored, cadastral surveying of the nation's land. The 11,800 large-scale, detailed maps which they comprise are recognised as one of the most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800743984Author Heather and Colin RidgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers