Historical Geography

In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France...

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...

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

Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire look like if reimagined as the...

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...

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...

The preface to this work describes how its authors, Charles Irby (1789-1845) and James Mangles (1786-1867), both officers in the Royal Navy, left England in 1816 for a tour of the continent. 'Curiosity at first, and an increasing admiration of...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511612Author Geraldine StoutFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Landmark Maps of Texas features important depictions of the Lone Star State and the Americas from 1513 to 1904. Nearly 100 maps in their original color grace its pages and many of these specimens are extraordinary and rare. This is not just a picture...

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

An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through world history. In this book, historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik immerses herself in the many stories behind the fascinating maps, prints,...

New in paperback! This new and revised edition of Place-Name Changes Since 1900, originally published in 1979, contains over 4,500 name changes worldwide, ranging from small villages to entire countries. Much has changed in the world in the 13 years that...

Regions in Transition provides an in-depth analysis of the dramatic influence of the Great Depression upon the geography, politics, economics, and demography of the Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest. This work suggests that a foundation for the...

Co-published with the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship (CLC), Geography and Worldview contains eight essays on the theme of geography and Christian worldview based on papers presented at a conference held at Calvin College in August 1996. The...

Broadland, or 'the Broads', is a unique area of wetlands occupying the floodplains of a network of waterways in eastern Norfolk and north-eastern Suffolk, and which includes around forty shallow freshwater lakes. Since the nineteenth century it has been...

Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal...

First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography. This undertakes a no less ambitious task than that of discovering the spatial relationships of the manifold features, physical and...

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...

The story of Ni'ihau has been told many times by many people, but Ni'ihau Place Names adds new information to the island's history from a unique source: Hawaiian-language newspapers. From 1834 to 1948, approximately 125,000 pages of Native Hawaiian...

In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people's use of technology...

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) 467gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

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...

The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the years from 1929 to 1937 included a series in nine parts of important papers on "Crucial Maps" which have been a frequent source of reference ever since for students of the history of discovery and...

The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign...

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...

For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian...

Europeans who settled previously unpopulated and unexploited regions of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries of the world had two economic alternatives: subsistence activities or the production of primary goods for export. In general the latter...

Canada is a country of bounded spaces - a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a political border to the south. In A Bounded Land, Cole Harris seeks answers to a sweeping question: How was society reorganized - for Indigenous and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226333038Author Alfred HiattFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

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...

From their earliest days on the American frontier through their growth into a worldwide church, the spatially expansive Mormons made maps to help them create idealized communities, migrate to and colonize large parts of the American West, visualize the...

First published in 1934, Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography is a critical commentary on a chronologically arranged bibliography of nearly two thousand contemporary printed and manuscript works. Poets, preachers and philosophers, mathematicians,...

First published in 1930, Tudor Geography discusses the men and the geographical concepts that enabled world-famous voyages by the British with the aim of circumventing Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of the direct routes to the Spice Islands. The book...

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...

Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on his research was the opening of New World lands by European peoples, and this North American experience is the subject of...