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Central Asia in World History
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 18.99A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia... more...
The Origins of the Modern World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2002; US$ 84.99This clearly written and engaging book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world. Unlike most studies, which assume that the 'rise of the West' is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play... more...
The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 150.00Broad in scope and edited by two massive names in geography, this is a critical exploration of how the field has emerged and fared over the course of its modern institutionalization. more...
The Maeander Valley
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 91.00Groundbreaking study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. more...
Historische Geographie
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 15.09Hauptbeschreibung Die Historische Geographie ist eine Kerndisziplin, die mit ihrem übergeordneten Anspruch auf raumzeitliche Differenzierung sämtlichen Teilbereichen der Humangeographie zugrunde liegt. Doch auch mit der geschichtlichen Landeskunde und der Umweltgeschichte ist das Fach eng verwandt und verknüpft. Auf diese Weise spricht diese Einführung... more...
When the Waves Ruled Britannia
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 27.00This interdisciplinary study examines changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. more...
Mapping the Nation
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess... more...
The Changing Geography of Asia
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 69.95Ranging from the poverty and exploding population of Bangladesh to the dazzling technology and ageing population of Japan, from the two most populous states of India and China to the tiny states of Singapore and the Maldives and to the emptiness of Siberia, Asia contains the greatest diversity of physical environments, cultures and levels of development... more...
American Empire
University of California Press 2003; US$ 39.95An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful... more...
Historical GIS
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00Examines the use of GIS in historical research, providing a clear agenda for its development. more...









