Historical Geography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473330993Author G W HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint White PressPublisher White PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945312144Author Brad BorkanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The dramatic story of Christianity from its origins to the present day, told through more than one hundred stunning color maps.With over two billion practicing believers today, Christianity has taken root in almost all parts of the globe. Its impact on...

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...

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

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578474182Author Susan M WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Gluasad PressPublisher Gluasad PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the...

Celebrating the rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research in Hertfordshire, the 15 papers collected in this work focus on various aspects of the region, including the Neolithic to the post-Medieval periods, and include a report on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918218Author Paul Leslie LineFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images Ltd

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United States' beloved Route 66.Route 66 changed immensely in the six decades between its opening in 1926 and its...

Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789873641Author Roald AmundsenFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

Little is known about the anonymous author of this book, later identified as one Charles Leslie, whose family had strong Caribbean interests. In thirteen 'letters', Leslie covers Jamaica's early colonial history, its laws, the lives of its governors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528771344Author G W HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

This book examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth-century Britain. Based on research into a wide variety of local sources, it examines the process by which the Irish came to be blamed...

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...

Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Multidisciplinary and drawing on...

As the first geographical study of interwar Britain, The Geography of Interwar Britain (originally published in 1988 and now with a new preface by the author) breaks new ground, incorporating original research and new interpretations of the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737190035Author Linda QuiquivixFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Wild Ox BooksPublisher Wild Ox BooksWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through time to examine world history through the closely related discipline of geography.From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626711174Author Stefan DorondelFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Purdue Scholarly Publishing ServicesPublisher Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services

"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman"Has much to offer." The Spectator"Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine "Essential reading." All About History"Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854811526Author Zur ShalevFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London