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  • Changing Geography of Asiaby Graham P. Chapman; Kathleen M. Baker

    Routledge 1992; US$ 61.95

    Clearly illustrated with basic maps, this book presents a systematic review of twenty-five years of development, covering the physical, economic, social and political environments of contemporary Asia. more...

  • American Empireby Neil Smith

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 34.95

    An 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 geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits... more...

  • Historical GISby Ian N. Gregory; Paul S. Ell

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00

    Examines the use of GIS in historical research, providing a clear agenda for its development. more...

  • Wicked Riverby Lee Sandlin

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99

    From award-winning journalist Lee Sandlin comes a riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America’s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century.   Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River takes us back to a time before the Mississippi was dredged into a shipping channel, and before Mark Twain romanticized it into myth. Drawing on an array of suspenseful and bizarre firsthand accounts, Sandlin brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries shared passage with thieves—a world unto itself where, every night, near the... more...

  • Geography and Historyby Alan R. H. Baker

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 29.00

    Unique examination of the relations between geography and history. more...

  • Bienville's Dilemmaby Richard Campanella

    Garrett County Press 2010; US$ 9.99

    Bienville's Dilemma presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery. more...

  • Central Asia in World Historyby Peter B. Golden

    Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 19.95

    A 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 in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced over millennia. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan and his successors, the largest... more...

  • From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterraneanby Sebouh David Aslanian

    University of California Press 2011; US$ 49.95

    Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world?both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires?astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated... more...

  • When the Waves Ruled Britanniaby Jonathan Scott

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 26.00

    This interdisciplinary study examines changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. more...

  • Historical Atlasesby Walter Goffart

    University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 60.00

    Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart... more...