Historical Geography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477492Author Jon WinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477485Author Jon WinderFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilisations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249517Author Diogo de Carvalho CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

The area that constitutes the Austrian federal province of Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire until the end of World War I. This book helps us realize that geographical knowledge does not come ready-made. Instead, it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249500Author Diogo de Carvalho CabralFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838071967Author History of Bath Research GroupImprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust

As well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments from...

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...

A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178234Author Cole HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 468g

Using a neo-Marxian, urban political economy perspective, this book examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In its analysis of urbanization in England, the book considers the influences of landed property owners, inheritance...

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,...

From the time when humans first learned to harness fire, cultivate crops, and domesticate livestock, they have altered their environment as a means of survival. In the modern era, however, natural resources have been devoured and defiled in the wake of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802032959Author James M. GilmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Written from a historian's perspective, this book analyses the role Mohammad Ali Jinnah played as the first Governor General of Pakistan. In the brief yet significant period that he was in office, Jinnah fought the battle for Pakistan's survival,...

Polar explorer John Ross (1777-1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829 he set out on a privately funded expedition on...

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...

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,...

James Rennell (1742-1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who...

An Irish-born adventurer in Russian service, Peter Dobell (1772-1852) embarked in 1812 on a long journey from Kamchatka across Siberia to Tomsk. This two-volume work, first published in 1830, contains a detailed and idiosyncratic account of his journey,...

As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that...

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto's two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Toronto Daily Star, nevertheless campaigned for surface...

This book will be of interest to those studying culture, politics, state building, and borderlands, as well as history, political science, Canadian-American diplomacy, Canadian studies, resource management, environmental studies, and industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487586843Author E B S LogierFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh...

Power from the North will appeal to geographers, historians, policy makers, and environmentalists and anyone interested in First Nations, resource co-management, and cultural approaches to energy.Book InformationISBN 9780774824170Author Caroline...

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 9781844918492Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical...

Sugar cane has long been one of the world's most important cash crops, and the sugar cane industry can be regarded as one of the world's oldest industries. The industry involves three basic processes: the cultivation of cane, the milling of the cane to...

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...

Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847845337Author Robert WoodhouseImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500418762Author Richard HakluytFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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,...

Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Painted in multiple...

On the Move presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. Typically, people have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009045537Author Julia Adeney ThomasFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

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 9781479362486Author Tony Franks-BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...