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Historical geography

  • Historical Geography: Progress and Prospectby Michael Pacione

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95

    Historical geography has been a major area of activity in recent years. Much of the recent work and research findings have been extremely valuable to historians and archaeologists and as background to the study of contemporary geography. This reissue, first published in 1987, presents an overview of contemporary developments in all the major branches... more...

  • Mapping the Nationby Susan Schulten

    University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00

    In 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...

  • Historische Geographieby Winfried Schenk

    WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 15.21

    Hauptbeschreibung 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...

  • The Maeander Valleyby Peter Thonemann

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 91.00

    Groundbreaking study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. 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... more...

  • From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterraneanby Sebouh David Aslanian

    University of California Press 2011; US$ 55.00

    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... more...

  • When the Waves Ruled Britanniaby Jonathan Scott

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 27.00

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

  • The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledgeby John Agnew; David N Livingstone

    SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 150.00

    Broad 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...

  • Central Asia in World Historyby Peter B. Golden

    Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 18.99

    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... more...

  • Wicked Riverby Lee Sandlin

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95

    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... more...