Historical Geography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847846006Author Malcolm NixonImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

This alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people's New York City. The sites and stories of A People's Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540776266Author & Some Dead GuysFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781980936879Author The History HourFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines. Alan Baker, an internationally honoured historical geographer, focuses upon the work of North American, British and...

First published in 1986, this book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people and things by controlling area. This argument is developed by analysing...

In 1973, when A New Historical Geography of England was originally published, it was generally agreed that Professor Darby and his fellow contributors had produced the authoritative historical geography of England. That volume now appears as a paperback...

For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, ""City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century"" by...

We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609457662Author Gideon DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844507Author Gilbert BellImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

Power and Pauperism aims to provide a new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy. The workhouse system is set in the wider context in an age associated, paradoxically, with...

How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of...

Bruce Campbell's book, first published in 2000, was the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. It deals comprehensively with the cultivation carried out by or for lords on their demesne farms, for which the...

This is the first historical atlas of a major region of the United Kingdom. Its aim is to create and communicate the history of the south-western peninsula of England-Cornwall, Devon and the Isles of Scilly - from the beginnings of man's occupation 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...

Nuala C. Johnson explores the complex relationship between social memory and space in the representation of war in Ireland. The Irish experience of the Great War, and its commemoration, is the location of Dr Johnson's sustained and pioneering examination...

In 1973, when A New Historical Geography of England was originally published, it was generally agreed that Professor Darby and his fellow contributors had produced the authoritative historical geography of England. That volume now appears as a paperback...

Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today...

This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918232Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946575982Author Amir ReinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Israel History MapsPublisher Israel History MapsWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts and revealing how they shaped both the environment and people's imaginations from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918041Author George BradshawPage 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 9781844918294Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since-in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of...

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...

David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780-1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918348Author Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Page Count 1Imprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical Images LtdDimensions(mm) 237mm * 134mm * 8mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179903Author Derek HayesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918058Author George BradshawPage 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 9780692459324Author Amir ReinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Israel History MapsPublisher Israel History MapsWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10...

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds; the seas and rivers teemed with fish; and, the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream. Fortunately for us, they...

Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior-that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in 1665, was the largest and most expensive book to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517413880Author Alan F CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by...

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) 231g

In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key...