Historical geography Books

A Third Summer in Kintyre completes Angus Martin's trilogy of books about consecutive summers spent walking and cycling in Kintyre, exploring the history and natural history of the places he visits and documenting his own past. In this book, which covers...

Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again.In London, the government, alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Europe, refused to re-open the soup kitchens in Ireland. But, worse still, they refused to halt food exports...

The Nation State of Israel is a short and concise overview of Israel that includes:•its Patriarchal history since Abraham; •its Geography and Environment; •its Economy, Culture, and Demographics; •its Government and Legal System; •Zionism and the...

First, I want to begin by showing some of the sights of Agusan Valley and its beauty, wonders and dangers the place was known before as an "unexplored and inhospitable jungle." This was where the central theme of this story hap-pened. Looking...

In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their reliance on others for survival. Far from being solitary heroes, these explorers were in reality...

This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting...

This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from different philosophical traditions and ideologies. It puts together perspectives that have been largely...

In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to...

As the first scribe among men, the Prophet Enoch wrote the first history of the world ever recorded by man's hands. Prior to this seventh generation from Adam, an angel in Heaven kept an account on the Heavenly Tablets. Many have mischaracterized the...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue in search of the Garden of Eden, the famous land of gold known as Ophir and Tarshish above it, and the same area identified in his research as Arsareth, where some of the Northern Lost Tribes of Israel migrated. He...

Sarimanok is the thrilling story of an attempt to cross the Indian Ocean in a 20-metre-long dugout canoe to demonstrate how the Austronesian-speaking people of Madagascar may have colonised their island some 1,500 years before Christ. Characters on the...

In "An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North," S. A. Malsagoff writes about the horrible and scary life inside a Soviet jail in the harsh Arctic. Mal'sagov's thorough study and striking writing style clearly show the harsh conditions, violence,...

Small-town living makes for some very rich heritage. Grifton is such a place. This book is a record of true stories of some of the people that made up the town. It is their life shared and is written by one of its own. George Sugg grew up with the town...

Aristoteles hielt das Atlantis des Platon für eine Erfindung, so liest man es immer wieder. Doch stimmt das wirklich? Bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts galt in der Wissenschaft noch die gegenteilige Auffassung. Wie kam es zu diesem Meinungsumschwung? Und...

A toda vela se refiere a la primera y grandiosa expedición científica estadounidense que dio la vuelta al mundo: la U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). Se trata de una notable contribución para la Historia de los Estados Unidos de inicios del siglo...

Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison to other countries. Peter Woolley then examines the ways...

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to...

Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century, and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are well known, far less is understood about how small...

Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the increasing accuracy and legibility of the cartographic projection, the proliferation of empirically-based chorographies, and the popular vogue for travel narratives served to order,...

"An Unnatural Metropolis" offers an in-depth look at a city and society uniquely shaped by the natural forces it has sought to harness.Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from...

""Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County, Pennsylvania: With A Complete Record Of The Descendants Of Alexander Proudfit And Martha McCleary"" is a book written by Margaret Compton in 1911. The book provides an in-depth historical account...

Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of...

Chartography In Ten Lessons is a book written by Frank Julian Warne and published in 1919. The book is a comprehensive guide to the art of chartography, which is the process of creating maps and charts. The author provides detailed instructions on the...

Chambers's Historical Readers, Book 4: England From The Revolution To 1882 is a book written by W. and R. Chambers and published in 1884. The book is a comprehensive historical account of the significant events, people, and changes that took place in...

Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito...

Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now...

Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred: Understanding the Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel examines the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving beyond the officially recognized, and often...

What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many...

Tourism is all about visuals. Visuals stimulate our imagination, create fantasy, and drive the audiences to take actions to realize these dreams through perceived reality. With media content presented through channels of television drama, reality shows,...

Place is integral to tourism. In tourism, almost all issues can ultimately be traced back to human-place interactions and human-place relationships. Sense of place, also referred to as place attachment, topophilia, and community sentiment, has received...

New York Times Bestseller"Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas." -- Wall Street JournalWhy does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar...

This book is about many people and many things that have happened in my life. The book is about how many people have stolen from me and lied for money. It is about witches. I call them that for the evil things they have done; they tried to ruin my life...

The Natural History of Birds is a comprehensive book written by Frederic Shoberl and published in 1836. It is a detailed account of the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of various species of birds found around the world. The book is...

Rivers figure prominently in a nation's historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an...

Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.' Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the 'citizen...

In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from...

This book looks at several African tribes today and their respective cultures, which have evolved over centuries. It presents an intriguing look at the beliefs and practices that have shaped their world from earliest times. This book also addresses the...

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 Henry W. Lawrence...

There was only one survivor of the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition from Melbourne to the north coast of Australia which began in 1860. The expedition is usually described as a dismal failure...but was it?This is the story of a phenomenal surveyor,...

This book examines the environmental effects and learning that plagued commercial projects in frontier projects. Including cases from Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Africa in the period between 1750 and 1990, it contributes to understanding...

Waiting for the End of the World? addresses the archaeological, architectural, historical and geological evidence for natural disasters in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries. This volume adopts a fresh interdisciplinary approach to...