Historical geography Books

Book SynopsisHighland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. Conte’s study illuminates the debate over conservation, arguing that contingency and chance, the stuff of human history, have shaped forests in ways that rival the power of nature.Trade Review“This fascinating study deserves the attention of a wide variety of scholars and development experts. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“This is a notable addition to the environmental history of Tanzania. It is a work that neatly blends archival and field research, and the approach of the author is both sensitive and humane.” * American Historical Review *“Conte’s history is a solid one…His volume is a useful addition to the corpus of environmental case studies in East Africa.” * The International Journal of African Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisOnce the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and degraded landscape. The nation’s spectacular erosion and gullying have concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century.Trade Review“Undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. It stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power.”

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Book SynopsisMany students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists.Trade Review“This remarkable work on the Serengeti area in Tanzania will be of great value to Africans and non-Africans alike, including researchers in African history, anthropology, and geography.... Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Jan Bender Shetler has written an exceptionally erudite work that contributes in seminal ways to the fields of both African and environmental history and provides an innovative new model for analysing oral histories through an environmental lens… . Highly recommended!” * Journal of Africa *“Imagining Serengeti takes its place in a sophisticated literature on landscape and ecology in Africa.…Shetler’s contribution is a particularly distinguished one, not least for the array of approaches she has brought to her project.…(T)his is a landmark volume, and it will be required reading in African and environmental history.” * American Historical Review *“Shetler’s book provides a completely new analysis of the Serengeti debate by adding the voices of a forgotten population, the peoples of the western Serengeti.... The centrality of the landscape to Serengeti peoples’ identitites, the complexity of local environmental knowledge, and the deep historical and emotional attachments to place are thus illustrated in vivid detail.” * African Studies Review *“Shetler provides a thorough critique of...colonial conservation policy, which, without reference to the region’s ecological or social past, redefined the Serengeti as a wilderness, initiating a process of fortress conservation.... The book’s pronounced spatial perspectives and ecological focus demonstrate how meaningful the history of a place is to the people whose ancestors claimed, measured and manipulated this region.” * Journal of African History *“This is an extraordinary book by an historian of uncommon erudition and originality.... For the reader whose primary interest in the Serengeti is its wildlife, the lesson that jumps off the pages is that, far from pristine wilderness, this is profoundly humanized territory, occupied and transformed through human labor and imagination for millennia.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This work will come as a welcome reminder of what a fine harvest of historical data can be had from a careful culling of the oral histories of Africa’s numerous decentralised societies.... Shetler...has offered both environmental and African oral historians a cornucopia.” * Environment and History *“The Serengeti ecosystem is a symbol of global conservation efforts, but in conservationist literature the agricultural and agro-pastoral peoples who lived on the western reaches of the ecosystem became little more than ‘poachers’ who had no legitimate claim to the land or resources of the park. In this fascinating book on a topic of importance to specialists in several different fields, Jan Bender Shetler attempts to provide a corrective to this perception.” * coeditor of Custodians of the Land: Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania *

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Book SynopsisMany students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists.Trade Review“This remarkable work on the Serengeti area in Tanzania will be of great value to Africans and non-Africans alike, including researchers in African history, anthropology, and geography.... Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Jan Bender Shetler has written an exceptionally erudite work that contributes in seminal ways to the fields of both African and environmental history and provides an innovative new model for analysing oral histories through an environmental lens… . Highly recommended!” * Journal of Africa *“Imagining Serengeti takes its place in a sophisticated literature on landscape and ecology in Africa.…Shetler’s contribution is a particularly distinguished one, not least for the array of approaches she has brought to her project.…(T)his is a landmark volume, and it will be required reading in African and environmental history.” * American Historical Review *“Shetler’s book provides a completely new analysis of the Serengeti debate by adding the voices of a forgotten population, the peoples of the western Serengeti.... The centrality of the landscape to Serengeti peoples’ identitites, the complexity of local environmental knowledge, and the deep historical and emotional attachments to place are thus illustrated in vivid detail.” * African Studies Review *“Shetler provides a thorough critique of...colonial conservation policy, which, without reference to the region’s ecological or social past, redefined the Serengeti as a wilderness, initiating a process of fortress conservation.... The book’s pronounced spatial perspectives and ecological focus demonstrate how meaningful the history of a place is to the people whose ancestors claimed, measured and manipulated this region.” * Journal of African History *“This is an extraordinary book by an historian of uncommon erudition and originality.... For the reader whose primary interest in the Serengeti is its wildlife, the lesson that jumps off the pages is that, far from pristine wilderness, this is profoundly humanized territory, occupied and transformed through human labor and imagination for millennia.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This work will come as a welcome reminder of what a fine harvest of historical data can be had from a careful culling of the oral histories of Africa’s numerous decentralised societies.... Shetler...has offered both environmental and African oral historians a cornucopia.” * Environment and History *“The Serengeti ecosystem is a symbol of global conservation efforts, but in conservationist literature the agricultural and agro-pastoral peoples who lived on the western reaches of the ecosystem became little more than ‘poachers’ who had no legitimate claim to the land or resources of the park. In this fascinating book on a topic of importance to specialists in several different fields, Jan Bender Shetler attempts to provide a corrective to this perception.” * coeditor of Custodians of the Land: Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania *

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Book SynopsisFor better or worse, the view through a car’s windshield has redefined how we see the world around us.Trade Review“Although the contributors’ particular interests vary widely, these questions lend The World beyond the Windshield a cohesion that is rare and admirable among scholarly anthologies.... The World beyond the Windshield is a valuable and sometimes surprising contribution to the comparative social history of technology, the environment, and automotive transportation.” * Technology and Culture *“We accept that the coming of the automobile was a technological revolution, but we have not fully appreciated how it was a perceptual revolution as well. The essays in this wonderful volume not only provide a clear and graceful journey through various North American and European landscapes of automobility. They also reveal a fascinating and formative set of relations between designers and consumers. The World Beyond the Windshield is comparative history at its best.” * author of Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement *“Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller‘s anthology, The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe, marks the beginning of a new and much needed discourse on the subject (historical studies of the automotive landscape).…The essays in The World Beyond the Windshield are accessible and well researched.” * The Journal of Transport History *“Through analyses of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Needles Highway, and the Washington Beltway, as well as roads in Italy, Nazi Germany, the former East Germany, and postwar U.K., the authors document the transatlantic exchange of ideas about technology and environment. In the process, they also demonstrate how these ideas have been appropriated for national and transnationalistic ends.” * APADE, Indiana University *“(The World beyond the Windshield’s) contributions significantly extend our understanding of the processes through which 20th century highways were envisaged, designed, build, and used.” * Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Global Geschichte... *“A remarkably interesting account of how the various interests, priorities, and perceptions among both highway builders and users interacted in different historical contexts to produce the particular kinds of roads that we see today and so often take for granted.” * H-German *

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Book SynopsisThe Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat.Trade Review“The book’s expository prose style is in tune with its overall design: clarity and utility are foremost.… The Game of Conservation will be a valuable resource for any scholar of conservation, colonialism or international treaty making.” * Environment and History *“The Game of Conservation is a concise, well-researched, and nicely presented study of pioneering wildlife protection treaties from the first half of the twentieth century.… This study offers a valuable model for environmental historians seeking to provide accessible and insightful scholarship that transcends national boundaries.” * Environmental History *“An impressive and fresh approach to studying the environment in the twenty–first century.”“In an engaging style reminiscent of a mystery novel, Cioc relates the historical, political, sociological, and ecological stories behind the treaties.…Knowing the origins of animal protection efforts does much to explain the conservation problems these species still face.” * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThrough the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs.InTrade Review“Brown has done a brilliant piece of detective work to trace the erratic progress of the disease through the region in the twentieth century. She integrates an innovative history of science and medicine with a complex understanding of the ecology of disease. All of this is told in an engaging narrative which captures the cultural and political significance of rabies in societies riven by divisions of class and race.”“A compelling history of one of the most gruesome epidemic diseases that affect both humans and animals…. In seven chapters Brown is not only writing a history of rabies in colonial and post-colonial Southern Africa but shows how medical history can be as much environmental history as it is the history of ideas and of course social history.” * Environment and History *“Karen Brown demonstrates in her well-researched survey that the history of rabies in South Africa involved not only tranformations in veterinary practices, in epidemiology, in conservation, and in public health policy but also in wildlife. Over the twentieth century, the disease adapted to a variety of faunal vectors, including jackals, tigers, lions, mongooses, meerkats, and wild, stray, and domestic dogs.” * ISIS *“With few full studies of rabies available, Brown’s ecohistorical perspective will generate more than parochial interest.” * Choice *“No matter whether one’s chief interest lies in the human or animal component of her tale, Dr. Brown gives much food for thought in her revelation of human-animal interactions and how infections pass between animals and people.…In addition to the lively and informed nature of Dr. Brown’s writing, Mad Dogs and Meerkats is also readily accessible to the layperson. Dr. Brown includes many quotations from writers and experts in the field, always ensuring that such quotations are pertinent and salient, while restricting them to the most relevant utterances made by these professionals.” * New York Journal of Books *

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Book SynopsisEnvironment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers.Trade Review“Ecocritical studies have long neglected the postcolonial regions of the world, so it’s refreshing and timely to see a collection of essays focused entirely on Africa. This collection is the first of its kind and as such is positioned to make a vital intervention in postcolonial, ecocritical, and African studies.”“A groundbreaking intervention into African, postcolonial, literary, and environmental studies.” * Research in African Literatures *

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Book SynopsisMalaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local.Trade Review“This is one of the most important books written on Africa in the last ten years—indeed, in any ten years. If this book does not win a prize, then there is truly no justice.…A superb topic, handled here by an accomplished historian at the peak of his powers…The epilogue is simply magnificent. Sparse, almost curt, it makes the case with blinding clarity…The past lives with us. The future is about adaptability, not progress.”“McCann’s work is truly a must-read for experts in many fields, from public health, agriculture, and history, to politics and development. This book is a brilliant demonstration of the deeply local and highly adaptable nature of disease and mortality, and the ways in which the historical ecology of disease effects household decision-making and trends in food production and economic development on a national scale.” * Focus on the Horn *“This thorough country history … explores malaria’s etiology, effects, and the challenges of minimizing, if not controlling, its impact. Historian McCann draws on decades of Ethiopian field experience and familiarity with its historical sources. … Fascinating anecdotes reveal local disease understandings, often blaming malign spirits (hence the subtitle). …Malaria severely challenges public health, but this study will aid the struggle. Summing Up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“Amid renewed calls for global malaria eradication, historian James C. McCann delivers a timely reminder of the complexity and resilience of malaria. His argument concerns interdisciplinarity, humility and scale. … McCann’s unique accomplishment is the incorporation of a sophisticated and complex biomedical hypothesis of modern malaria epidemiology into a nuanced historical and cultural narrative. … It will be useful for students of public health and its history.” * Social History of Medicine *“McCann writes history with an ethnographic sensibility and a solid grasp of the science. His delightful turn of phrase and accessible writing style make this work an enjoyable read for specialists and non-specialists alike. … [He] eloquently describes the social, economic and political disturbances central to malaria’s success, beautifully explains the distinctiveness of this infectious disease, and sensitively links science with illness narratives. …Readers will be left not just knowing more about Ethiopia and malaria, but with an analytical framework with which to enquire about malaria in other locations as well.” * Human Ecology *

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Book SynopsisIn Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.Trade Review“A lucid and compelling account of the slave experience in a region long ignored by historians of slavery…. [It is] a valuable case study that underscores the need for historians to pay closer attention to the ways in which environmental factors shaped the slave experience in various parts of the world.”“Reilly’s valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly's valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly has been particularly resourceful in drawing upon diverse disciplines and datasets. The result is a bold, stimulating study that will hopefully provoke furth scholarly engagement with this important topic.” * International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula *“Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria successfully illuminates the history of unfree laborers in a little studied region and is able to do so persuasively by using limited source material.” * Journal of Social History *

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Book SynopsisIn Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.Trade Review“A lucid and compelling account of the slave experience in a region long ignored by historians of slavery…. [It is] a valuable case study that underscores the need for historians to pay closer attention to the ways in which environmental factors shaped the slave experience in various parts of the world.”“Reilly’s valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly's valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly has been particularly resourceful in drawing upon diverse disciplines and datasets. The result is a bold, stimulating study that will hopefully provoke furth scholarly engagement with this important topic.” * International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula *“Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria successfully illuminates the history of unfree laborers in a little studied region and is able to do so persuasively by using limited source material.” * Journal of Social History *

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Book SynopsisSafari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent.Trade Review“In Safari Nation, the Kruger Park and South African ideas of nature and nationality are revealed in profoundly new and insightful ways. Jacob Dlamini captures South African experiences of nature and leisure that have largely escaped the historical profession, focusing his sharp eye on the significant minority of black South Africans who managed to live ’with—as opposed to under—colonialism and apartheid.’ An enjoyable book, full of surprises.” -- Saul Dubow, author of South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights“An innovative work of intellectual, political, and social history, Safari Nation advances a compelling new explanation for why the ANC government has chosen not to dismantle colonial-era conservation projects whose origins lie in the dispossession of countless black families. Dlamini’s skillful storytelling throughout the book manages to balance compassion and concern for justice with careful empirical detail in a direct, graceful prose that makes Safari Nation an enjoyable read from start to finish.” -- Heidi Gengenbach, author of Binding Memories: Women as Makers and Tellers of History in Magude, Mozambique“Safari Nation is a highly original treatment of the history of Kruger National Park from a black perspective. Dlamini does not pursue a polarized interpretation of the park and conservation as simply white/colonial constructs but instead develops a growing literature that presents African people as engaged in many different facets of park history, as agents, and conservationists.” -- William Beinart, author of Rise of Conservation in South Africa“This book is about nature and black South Africans, but not as daughters and sons of the soil. Rather, Jacob Dlamini describes people on the move towards Kruger National Park, a place where conservation meant racial exclusion. On their way, they made a space of belonging through political effort, not nativism. Following its own eclectic route through rural reserves, cities, and mines, from Table Mountain to the lowveld, Safari Nation offers a bold argument that by making claim on the more-than-human world, black South Africans created an inclusive nation.” -- Nancy Jacobs, author of Birders of Africa: History of a Network“Safari Nation is more than a social history of KNP. It is a history of black South Africans opposed to injustice engaging with the land, leisure, what it means to be South African, and ‘ways of being’ under colonialism, apartheid, and a still unequal nation…. Indeed, Dlamini’s history of Kruger National Park makes a bold and hopeful statement about conservation and the land question in South Africa.” -- Jill E. Kelly * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisFrom radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.Trade Review“An ambitiously interdisciplinary volume offering thought-provoking new ways for considering how toxic landscapes challenge a linear, colonialist, and capitalist model of time-as-progress.”Environmental toxicology, exposure, and risk cannot be meaningfully analyzed simply as unfortunate situations or events in isolation from the neocolonialism and complex sociocultural contexts that initiate and perpetuate them. This book is rich in detail, sobering in perspective, and for the most part pleasingly free of jargon. Summing up: highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume's contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality.The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and pTrade Review“An ambitiously interdisciplinary volume offering thought-provoking new ways for considering how toxic landscapes challenge a linear, colonialist, and capitalist model of time-as-progress.”Environmental toxicology, exposure, and risk cannot be meaningfully analyzed simply as unfortunate situations or events in isolation from the neocolonialism and complex sociocultural contexts that initiate and perpetuate them. This book is rich in detail, sobering in perspective, and for the most part pleasingly free of jargon. Summing up: highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgmentsTributeINDEX MAPS AND LEGEND, VOLUME IIIPlates XII- XIXLEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL MAPS, VOLUME IIIColumbia River and Pacific CoastMap Numbers 334-380Alternate Return Route No. 1--Main Party, Nez Perce Trail, Southeast WashingtonMap Numbers 381- 393Alternate Return Routes No. 2 and 3--Main Party, Clearwater Country, IdahoMap Numbers 394-400Alternate Return Route No. 4--Clark Party, Big Hole, MontanaMap Numbers 401-411Alternate Return Route No. 5--Lewis Party, Lewis and Clark Pass, MontanaMap Numbers 412-434Alternate Return Route No. 6--Clark Party, Yellowstone River, MontanaMap Numbers 435-494Alternate Return Route No. 7--Lewis Party, Upper Marias, MontanaMap Numbers 495-527Mississippi River and St. Louis--Main PartyMap Numbers 528-530INDEX, VOLUME IIIOutbound, Winter Activity, and Return CampsErrata (Vols. I and II)

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Book SynopsisExploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia''s development over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to Russian studies and the new spatial history. It considers aspects of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the local level to the national and from the eighteenth century through the present.Essays include: Melissa K. Stockdale, What is a Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights and Belonging in Russia; Mark Bassin, Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie: Environmental Discourses in Classic Eurasianism; John Randolph, Russian Route: The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road, 1700-1800; Richard Stites, On the Dance Floor: Royal Power, Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia; Patricia Herlihy, Ab Oriente ad Ultimum Oriente: Eugen Scuyler, Russia and Central Asia; Robert Argenbright, Soviet Agitational Vehicles: Colonization from Place to Place; Christoph

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Book SynopsisExploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to Russian studies and the "new spatial history." It considers aspects of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the local level to...

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power.Trade Review“Scholars of environmental history would benefit from reading this lucidly written book, especially because it discusses diverse cases and has useful references to vernacular sources.” * Technology and Culture *“A coherent and excellent volume on the environmental history of the arable and non-arable colonial world…this book is a valuable and important addition to global and comparative world environmental history.” * European History Quarterly *“Cultivating the Colonies embarks on an ambitious task, investigating the nuts and bolts of colonial environmental governance and understanding how that study can illuminate the modern complexities in post-independence states. The editors and authors have done well not to shy away from the complexity of their task. Rather than attempting to address every nuance of colonial history, Cultivating the Colonies provides well defined case studies that will serve as examples for future study and investigation of colonial management of nature and people.” * Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture.This interdisciplinary collection of sixteen essays explores the significance of space and place in Late Antique and medieval culture, as well as modern reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture, the visual arts (painting and manuscript illumination), epic, romance, historiography, hagiography, cartography, travel writing, as well as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East and West, self and other, Muslim and Christian, the volume addresses the often unexpected roles played by space and place in the construction of individual and collective identities in religious and secular domains. The essays move through world spaces (mappaemundi, the exotic and the mundane East, the Mediterranean); empires, nations, and frontier zones; cities (Avignon, Jerusalem, and Reval); and courts, castles and the architectureof subjectivity, closing with modern visions of the medieval world. They explore human movement in space and the construction of time and place in memory. Taking up pressing contemporary issues such as nationalism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and confessional relations, they find that medieval material provides narratives that we can use today in our negotiations with the past. Julian Weiss is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Studies, Sarah Salih Senior Lecturer in English, at King's College London. Contributors: Richard Talbert, Paul Freedman, Sharon Kinoshita, Luke Sunderland, Julian Weiss, Sarah Salih, Konstantin Klein, Katie Clark, Elizabeth Monti, Elina Gertsman, Elina Räsänen, Geoff Rector, Nicolay Ostrau, Andrew Cowell, Joshua Davies, Chris Jones, Matthew FrancisTrade ReviewA collection that medieval historians should engage with in terms of how both the sources and modern scholars construct ideas of place and space. * HISTORY *Table of ContentsPeutinger's Map Before Peutinger: Circulation and Impact, AD 300-1500 - Richard Talbert Locating the Exotic - Paul Freedman Locating the Medieval Mediterranean - Sharon Kinoshita Multilingualism and Empire in L'Entrée d'Espagne - Luke Sunderland Remembering Spain in the Medieval European Epic: A Prospect - Julian Weiss Lydgate's Landscape History - Sarah Salih The Politics of Holy Space: Jerusalem in the Theodosian Era (379-457 CE) - Konstantin Klein Redefining Space in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon: The St-Etienne Episode Locating Legitimacy: Architectural Patronage in Schismatic Avignon Locating the Body in Late Medieval Revival - Elina Gertsman Literary Leisure and the Architectural Spaces of Early Anglo-Norman Literature - Geoff Rector Enclosures of Love: Locating Emotion in the Arthurian Romances Yvain/Iwein - Nicolay Ostrau The Subjectivity of Space: Walls and Castles in La Prise d'Orange - Andrew Cowell Relocating Anglo-Saxon England: Places of the Past in Basil Bunting's Briggflatts and Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns - Joshua Davies Recycling Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Richard Wilbur's `Junk' and a Self Study - C S Jones Rewriting Mandeville's Travels - Matthew Francis

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Book SynopsisA compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans and ourselvesTrade Review"Will have you marveling at nature… Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation." -- 24 Books to Read this Summer - The New York Times Book Review"Cynthia Barnett presents us with a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history — scientific, cultural, philosophical and economic — of one of the most beloved and enduring natural objects on Earth: the seashell... “The Sound of the Sea” is a glorious history of shells and of those who have loved shells. It is a history of fascination and of shame." -- Katherine Norbury - The Washington Post"“Seashells were money before coin, jewellery before gems, art before canvas,” says science writer Cynthia Barnett in her arresting meditation on shells and ocean history." -- Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week's best science picks - Nature

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Book SynopsisFrom Improvement to City Planning emphasizes the ways people in nineteenth-century America managed urban growth. Historian Henry Binford shows how efforts to improve space were entwined with the evolution of urban governance (i.e., regulation)—and also influenced by a small group of advantaged families.Binford looks specifically at Cincinnati, Ohio, then the largest and most important interior city west of the Appalachian Mountains. He shows that it was not just industrialization, but also beliefs about morality, race, health, poverty, and “slum” environments, that demanded an improvement of urban space. As such, movements for public parks and large-scale sanitary engineering in the 1840s and ’50s initiated the beginning of modern city planning. However, there were limitations and consequences to these efforts..Many Americans believed that remaking city environments could also remake citizens. From Improvement to City Planning examTrade Review“Binford’s fine and meticulous scholarship builds a compelling and important argument about the early decades of civic activism and planning in U.S. cities. Cincinnati is far less studied than other midwestern cities, but as Binford shows, it has a rich nineteenth-century historiography. His book shows how the physical and social fabric of the city were inextricably intertwined, neighborhood by neighborhood and block by block.”—Carl Abbott, Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, and author of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America“An intellectual history as well as an urban history, From Improvement to City Planning demonstrates that Cincinnati was one of the most important cities west of the Appalachian Mountains during the nineteenth century. Binford effectively integrates issues of physical spatial management, evangelical religion, and applied science in the forms of new engineering and medical technologies. His argument is precise and distinctive and is sure to be influential. This important book has broad implications.”—Timothy Gilfoyle, Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, and author of A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York"In From Improvement to City Planning, Henry C. Binford offers a useful contribution to understandings of formative urban planning practices in the U.S., through an engaging narrative history of Cincinnati’s emergence as the ‘Queen City of the West.’ A significant strength of his account is the identification of two distinct periods in the ‘pre-history’ of American planning.... Binford’s insightful use of a broad range of historical sources allows him make a host of illuminating observations."—Housing Studies"Binford’s extensively researched book... is also a record of early concepts of public-private governance, character formation through moral influence, and 'improvement' played out within the expanding boundaries of the oldest, purely American big city in the United States.... [T]he book is clearly written...and would be a good introductory text on early U.S. urbanity."—Journal of Urban Affairs"The book is engagingly written and informative about the urban history of the Old Northwest.... Binford’s emphasis on the long history of ecological approaches to urban governance is also a valuable contribution.... The book’s strength lies in its detailed portrayals of what, how, and who accomplished these feats in Cincinnati."—Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisFrom Improvement to City Planning emphasizes the ways people in nineteenth-century America managed urban growth. Historian Henry Binford shows how efforts to improve space were entwined with the evolution of urban governance (i.e., regulation)—and also influenced by a small group of advantaged families.Binford looks specifically at Cincinnati, Ohio, then the largest and most important interior city west of the Appalachian Mountains. He shows that it was not just industrialization, but also beliefs about morality, race, health, poverty, and “slum” environments, that demanded an improvement of urban space. As such, movements for public parks and large-scale sanitary engineering in the 1840s and ’50s initiated the beginning of modern city planning. However, there were limitations and consequences to these efforts..Many Americans believed that remaking city environments could also remake citizens. From Improvement to City Planning examTrade Review“Binford’s fine and meticulous scholarship builds a compelling and important argument about the early decades of civic activism and planning in U.S. cities. Cincinnati is far less studied than other midwestern cities, but as Binford shows, it has a rich nineteenth-century historiography. His book shows how the physical and social fabric of the city were inextricably intertwined, neighborhood by neighborhood and block by block.”—Carl Abbott, Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, and author of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America“An intellectual history as well as an urban history, From Improvement to City Planning demonstrates that Cincinnati was one of the most important cities west of the Appalachian Mountains during the nineteenth century. Binford effectively integrates issues of physical spatial management, evangelical religion, and applied science in the forms of new engineering and medical technologies. His argument is precise and distinctive and is sure to be influential. This important book has broad implications.”—Timothy Gilfoyle, Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, and author of A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York"In From Improvement to City Planning, Henry C. Binford offers a useful contribution to understandings of formative urban planning practices in the U.S., through an engaging narrative history of Cincinnati’s emergence as the ‘Queen City of the West.’ A significant strength of his account is the identification of two distinct periods in the ‘pre-history’ of American planning.... Binford’s insightful use of a broad range of historical sources allows him make a host of illuminating observations."—Housing Studies"Binford’s extensively researched book... is also a record of early concepts of public-private governance, character formation through moral influence, and 'improvement' played out within the expanding boundaries of the oldest, purely American big city in the United States.... [T]he book is clearly written...and would be a good introductory text on early U.S. urbanity."—Journal of Urban Affairs"The book is engagingly written and informative about the urban history of the Old Northwest.... Binford’s emphasis on the long history of ecological approaches to urban governance is also a valuable contribution.... The book’s strength lies in its detailed portrayals of what, how, and who accomplished these feats in Cincinnati."—Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad range of archival material, Jamin Wells examines how shipwrecks laid the groundwork for the beach tourism industry that would transform the American beach from coastal frontier to oceanfront playspace, spur substantial investment, reshape ideas about the coast, and turn the beach into a touchstone of the American experience.

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Book SynopsisBy delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the American Century'.

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Book SynopsisIn his book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast toAmerica, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.Trade Review"...Little’s essays suggest that nineteenth-century tourism provides a significant vantage point for understanding the interplay of different discourses and performances of ‘nation’ that occurred within the Dominion’s borders." -- Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto * Histoire Sociale/Social History, vol 52 no 105, May '19 *"Why visit Canada but for its awe-inspiring natural spaces and picturesque villages? J.I. Little’s collection of essays details how travel writers from Britain, the United States, and Canada situated landscape at the center of Canadian identity and Canada’s purpose in the world. A collection of eight revised and two new essays carry the reader over 150 years and across what has become Canada, revealing ways in which writers connected identity to colonial landscape transformation." -- Rebecca Mancuso * American Review of Canadian Studies *"Little’s contribution comes from looking deeply at how a wide variety of landscapes in the provinces that are now Canada have been fashioned. The deep study of specific landscapes makes this collection a rewarding read." -- Eleanor Bird, Lancaster University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 'Like a fragment of the old world': The Historical Regression of Quebec City in Travel Narratives and Tourist Guidebooks, 1776-1913 2 Canadian Pastoral: Promotional Images of British Colonization in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships during the 1830s 3 West Coast Picturesque: Class, Gender, and Race in a British Colonial Landscape, 1858-71 4 Scenic Tourism on the Northeastern Borderland: Lake Memphremagog's Steamboat Excursions and Resort Hotels, 1850-1900 5 Seeing Elemental Nature: An American Transcendentalist On and Off the Coast of Labrador, 1864-65 6 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham's Quebec Essays in Harper's Magazine, 1883-89 7 'A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people': Travellers, Tourism, and the Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1859-1920 8 Picturing a National Landscape: Images of Nature in Picturesque Canada 9 Our Lady of the Snows: Rudyard Kipling's Imperialist Vision of Canada 10 A Country Without a Soul: Rupert Brooke's Gothic Vision of Canada Afterword: An Unknown Country?

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Book SynopsisAtlas of Nebraska presents maps and commentary about a variety of physiographic, climatological, demographic, political, social, economic, cultural, and other features of Nebraska.Trade Review"For anyone researching Nebraska history, this book will prove to be an essential tool as it carefully analyzes the state's data from prehistory through statehood."—Erik J. Wright, True West"Want to know where earthquakes have rattled Nebraska since statehood? There’s a map for that. How about the paths of tornadoes across the state? The origins of foreign-born Nebraskans? Areas state-designated as short of physicians, dentists and pharmacists? Or how horses have migrated from rural to urban areas? There are maps for all that. In fact, the atlas—the first of Nebraska published in more than three decades—chronicles the history of the state with more than 300 original, detailed and full-color maps accompanied by explanatory text. The coffee-table volume pokes into myriad subjects, including the state's geologic and prehistoric roots, American Indians and the fitful transition from territory to state."—David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald"It has been several decades since an effort has been made to produce an atlas of this kind. The updated data and techniques used in the production of this book are apparent when compared to the previous atlases. Overall, this book contains such a generous array of maps that it truly possesses something for everyone. Whether you're a cartophile or just someone living "The Good Life," the Atlas of Nebraska is a useful and enjoyable addition to any reference library."—Patrick Haynes, Nebraska History"Gorgeous. . . . Packed with scholarly resources, the book also offers an accessible resource for trivia buffs and those who eat, sleep and breathe Nebraska."—Nina Buck, Nebraska Life"Readers interested in the history of Nebraska will find the atlas a useful reference tool."—Russell S. Kirby, Historical Geography“The unassuming title of this atlas does not provide a hint of the diverse richness of its contents. Its abundant maps, its survey of our state’s geologic, prehistoric, Native American, and territorial and recent state history, as well as our climate and ecology, are just the beginning of a fact-filled treasure trove. What a wonderful gift to celebrate our state’s 150th birthday!”—Paul A. Johnsgard, winner of the National Conservation Achievement Award and author of Those of the Gray Wind: The Sandhill Cranes, New EditionTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Physical and Biological Environment Chapter 2. History Chapter 3. Population Chapter 4. Agriculture Chapter 5. Urban and Economic Patterns Chapter 6. Culture, Services, and Politics Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city. In East Berlin, where the historic core of the city lay, decisions made by the socialist leadership about what should be restored, reconstructed, or entirely reimagined would have a tremendous and lasting impact on the urban landscape. Risen from Ruins examines the cultural politics of the rebuilding of East Berlin from the end of World War II until the construction of the Berlin Wall, combining political analysis with spatial and architectural history to examine how the political agenda of East German elites and the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) played out in the built environment. Following the destruction of World War II, the center of Berlin could have been completely restored and preserved, or razed in favor of a sanitized, modern city. The reality fell somewhere in between, as decision makers balanced historic preservation against the opportunity to model the Socialist future and reject the example of the Nazi dictatorship through architecture and urban design. Paul Stangl's analysis expands our understanding of urban planning, historic preservation, modernism, and Socialist Realism in East Berlin, shedding light on how the contemporary shape of the city was influenced by ideology and politics.Trade Review"Visitors to Berlin today may have no sense of the postwar history that significantly reshaped what East Berlin looks like now. Stangl's book is an indispensable guide to this complex past."—David F. Crew, Journal of Modern History"A compelling account of how Marxist-Leninist ideology, political contingencies, architectural discourses and urban planning paradigms informed and directed the reconstruction of East Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic. This is a fascinating book and a timely contribution to the literature on the built environment of Berlin."—Maoz Azaryahu, University of Haifa"An impressively researched book, Risen from Ruins provides a comprehensive analysis of the politics of urban space in East Berlin. Its greatest achievement lies in capturing the dynamism of socialist realist architecture and the complexity of debates about historic preservation. A book of great breadth and depth, it deserves a wide readership among scholars of memory, urban space, and Soviet Communism."—Michael Meng, Clemson University"Stangl does an excellent job in highlighting the conflicts and irreconcilabilities that dominated the planning discussions of the immediate post-war era, employing his 'pathways of memory' device with great effect. What emerges is an impeccably well-researched and engaging work, amply illustrated and competently composed. The author more than meets his stated ambition to reveal the deep but complicated relationship between politics and planning during a period of tremendous political tension and instability. As such, students of communist politics and ideology will find every bit as much value in this work as those of architecture and urban planning."—Marcus Colla, Reviews in History"Paul Stangl's Risen from Ruins offers an in-depth study of East Berlin's reconstruction in the first decade after World War II....Stangl captures the combination of openness, excitement and frustration that marked the architectural rebuilding process in these years, revealing the complex processes that belie the simplicity of Socialist Realist theory....Stangl rewards careful readers by offering nuggets of new information or telling anecdotes on nearly every page."—Annemarie Sammartino, German History"[G]eographer Paul Stangl applies deep archival research to closely assess key East Berlin architectural projects before the construction of the Berlin Wall....[S]cholars with interest in Berlin or East German urban planning history are encouraged to explore his exhibition of how competing and overlapping planning agendas repeatedly decreed chaotic outcomes."—Andrew Demshuk, German Studies Review"Stangl adds to our understanding of the relatively well-researched socialist remodelling of East Berlin with a relevant book that impresses with its breadth and accessibility. For historians of East Germany, the strongest parts of the book are the sections that bring public opinion and the voices of local residents into the discussion of urban planning policies, such as the excellent chapter on Stalinallee."––Marcel Thomas, Urban History"The strengths of the book are undoubtedly the in-depth research behind the analysis as well as the ability of the author to break down theoretical debates....[Highly] recommended to all those interested in early GDR planning in Berlin."—Jan Musekamp, H-Urban"Paul Stangl's Risen from Ruins provides an evocative picture of East Berlin's postwar transition from Nazi to communist dictatorship."—Aristotle Kallis, Journal of Urban HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Landscapes of Commemoration 2. City Plans 3. Unter den Linden 4. From Royal Palace to Marx-Engels Square 5. Wilhelmstrasse 6. Stalinallee Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and all those aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking and they were in search of a protected beach to careen the ship to make repairs. They searched the coast and made landfall in what they called a 'Fair and Good Bay', generally thought to be in California. They stacked the treasure they had recently captured from the Spanish onto on this sandy shore, repaired the ship, explored the country, and after a number of weeks they set sail for home. When they returned to England, they became the second expedition to circumnavigate the earth, after Magellan's voyage in 1522, and the first to return with its commander.Thunder Go North unravels the mysteries surrounding Drake’s famous voyage and summer sojourn in this bay. Comparing Drake's observations of the Natives' houses, dress, foods, language, and lifeways with ethnographic material collected by early anthropologists, Melissa Darby makes a compelling case that Drake and his crew landed not in California but on the Oregon coast. She also uncovers the details of how an early twentieth-century hoax succeeded in maintaining the California landing theory and silencing contrary evidence. Presented here in an engaging narrative, Darby's research beckons for history to be rewritten.

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Book SynopsisHow do borderlands work? How do they maintain their distinctive features in the face of concerted efforts on the part of nation-states to make each of their borderlines into a harsh demarcation? According to most contemporary political discourse and popular perceptions, the two borders of the United States West have little in common but understanding their borderlands’ similarities can help us understand some of the most powerful forces shaping human history and the world around us; understanding their historiographies gives us insight into borderlands historians’ unique methodology.Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West brings together leading scholarship in a focused, synthetic survey of five themes in the history of the northern and southern borderlands: the borderlands as aboriginal homelands and the persistence of Indigenous territories and ways of being; imperial and national efforts to create binary notions of territory and identity; regulatory efforts aimed at stopping or limiting the movement of certain people across their borders; the weakening of those efforts by cross-border movement of capital, goods, and people, usually aided by state power, and the complex, binary-refusing identities that persist in borderlands communities.Historian Sheila McManus uses these themes to highlight the commonalities between the two borderlands’ histories and provides an overview and a starting point for experts and newcomers in the field of North American borderlands history to address new questions. By conceptualizing both borders together and focusing particular attention on race and gender as well as empire and nation, Both Sides Now provides a unique methodology in North American scholarship that emphasizes the connections between these borderlands and others around the world.

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Book SynopsisThe toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms.Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Women’s Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa’s statue landscape.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: 1: Gichi Zibi Omaami Winini Anishinaabe 2: The Upside-down Astrolabe Tour 3: The Agora Tour 4: The Poppy Tour 5: The Mica Tour 6: Laura Secord’s Tour 7: The Placard Tour Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did midwives deliver women in the past? What was their understanding of anatomy and physiology? How did they cope with unnatural presentations, haemorrhage, miscarriage and stillbirths, constipation? Were lives being prolonged and risks diminished? Midwifery case notes offer a considerable source of evidence, which, when used with care and imagination, help to tackle these questions. Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie demonstrates this in a fascinating way by analysing the work of two well-known midwives. Sarah Stone’s A Complete Practice of Midwifery was published in London in 1737. Mrs Stone had been a midwife in Bridgwater, Taunton and Bristol before moving to London in the late 1730s. Her book collects 43 case notes mainly from her Somerset practice. It is probably unique in providing a female midwife’s perspective on childbirth in provincial England in the eighteenth century. Although often mentioned by medical historians, literary scholars have given it most attention by reading it as a feminist text. But A Complete Practice reproduced in full within this book, is a detailed, albeit selective, account of the problems faced by midwifes, what they could do for their women, and how likely they were to succeed. William Smellie (1697-1763) occupies a pivotal position in the history of midwifery, not only in Britain, but also in the wider international community. He published a textbook in 1751 and two collections of case notes in 1754 and 1764. an analysis of the 278 London cases. Woods and Galley offer a ‘thick description’ of Smellie’s practice, the problems he faced, the people he dealt with, how he combined domiciliary clinical practice with advanced instruction, and the way in which he presented his work to a wider community for their enlightenment. Compulsory reading for those working on the history of medicine and midwifery, demography and social history, Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie is an engaging final study by the late internationally-renowned scholar Professor Robert Woods, FBA.Trade ReviewReviews 'The case-notes are fascinating if sometimes rather gruesome reading, admirably set in context and interestingly discussed. The analysis is meticulous, insightful and wide-ranging even if I do not agree with all of the conclusions, and the book is an extremely valuable addition to the literature, particularly for a very welcome consideration of outcomes as well as the development of knowledge and practice.' Alice ReidTable of Contents List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Midwives, their women and patients 2. Reading case notes 3. Sarah Stone, Somerset midwife 4. Mrs Stone’s Complete Practice 5. William Smellie, man-midwife and instructor 6. Dr Smellie’s London cases 7. The new obstetrics 8. Other cases from London, 9. Midwifery through case histories Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales. Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.Trade ReviewA rich and highly original interpretation of geography and print culture in late eighteenth-century Edinburgh. * Richard B. Sher, author of The Enlightenment and the Book *Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh is destined to become a landmark book for scholars of the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment and the urban history of science. * Stéphane Van Damme, Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure *The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh represents a substantial contribution to Enlightenment studies, the history of geography, and historical-cultural geography. It merits attention from scholars and students in each of these fields, and from historians of science concerned with scientific practice in the Age of Reason. * ISIS: A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY *Highly readable and well-structured with subtle and convincing arguments, critically but sympathetically marshalling evidence from a range of historical figures from book readers and subscribers to travellers, geographers and natural philosophers whose personalities are winningly conveyed. Dodds' approach provides an exciting template of how similar local to global studies of Enlightenment towns might be undertaken. * SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Mapping Enlightenment from an Edinburgh Bookshop I PLANNING: EDINBURGH AND THE NEW TOWN 1. Projecting: Cadastral Mapping and the Genesis of the New Town 2. Combining: Mapping Old, New and Soon 3. Dividing: Properties of the Plan Beyond 4. Extending: Progress and the Enlightenment Capital II SURVEYING: EDINBURGH AND ITS ENVIRONS 5. Counting: Political Arithmetic in the Parish of Cramond 6. Generalising: County Connections and Enclosures 7. Overviewing: Distant Perspectives in the Borders 8. Subscribing: Patronising Surveys and Provincial Libraries III TRAVELLING: EDINBURGH AND THE NATION 9. Piecing: Pre- and Post-Tour Epistles for Thomas Pennant's Scotland 10. Improving: Robert Heron's Journey through the Commerce of Print 11. Moving: Sarah Murray and her Travelling Readers 12. Trading: Routes in Scotland IV COMPILING: EDINBURGH AND THE WORLD 13. Summarising: Global Knowledge in an Elite High School 14. Supplementing: The Encyclopædia Britannica's Sources 15. Accessioning: The Family Collection 16. Institutionalising: Edinburgh Medical Students and Surgeons' Societies in the Nineteenth-Century World CONCLUSION: Universalising Enlightenment Edinburgh Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause celebre of the nineteenth century. Just before sunset on August 8th 1882 HMS Cockatrice, a small paddle wheel gunboat, appeared off the Egyptian shore. A rowing boat was lowered down its side and slowly moved towards the beach. On its arrival, six men and a teenage boy alighted. Three of the group were British, all dressed as Arabs, two were Bedouin tribesmen, one a Jew and one a Syrian. The following morning, this mismatched party set off for the desert, taking with them two boxes of dynamite and GBP3,000 in gold coin. Five of them were never seen again. An historical 'who-done-it', an adventure story, a history of the Anglo-Egyptian War and a biography of those involved in the controversy, /These Chivalrous Brothers/ explores the gulf between the Imperial ideal and reality and provides an insight into the character of the men who built the Empire. Through the biographies, it also throws light on such disparate topics as the early history of spying, spiritualism, female hysteria, biblical archaeology, various African uprisings, the Boer War and the hunt for 'Jack the Ripper'.

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Book SynopsisEssays dealing with the question of how "sense of place" is constructed, in a variety of locations and media. The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural and cultural environments, and which over the last twenty years or so has been increasingly defined, theorized and used across diverse disciplines in different ways. Sense of place mediates our relationship with the world and with each other; it providesa profoundly important foundation for individual and community identity. It can be an intimate, deeply personal experience yet also something which we share with others. It is at once recognizable but never constant; rather it isembodied in the flux between familiarity and difference. Research in this area requires culturally and geographically nuanced analyses, approaches that are sensitive to difference and specificity, event and locale. The essayscollected here, drawn from a variety of disciplines (including but not limited to sociology, history, geography, outdoor education, museum and heritage studies, health, and English literature), offer an international perspectiveon the relationship between people and place, via five interlinked sections (Histories, Landscapes and Identities; Rural Sense of Place; Urban Sense of Place; Cultural Landscapes; Conservation, Biodiversity and Tourism). Ian Convery is Reader in Conservation and Forestry, National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria; Gerard Corsane is Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museum and Galley Studies, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University; Peter Davis is Professor of Museology, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University. Contributors: Doreen Massey, Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis, David Storey, Mark Haywood, Penny Bradshaw, Vincent O'Brien, Michael Woods, Jesse Heley, Carol Richards, Suzie Watkin, Lois Mansfield, Kenesh Djusipov, Tamara Kudaibergonova, Jennifer Rogers, Eunice Simmons, Andrew Weatherall, Amanda Bingley, Michael Clark, Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, Helen Graham, Christopher Hartworth, Joanne Hartworth, Ian Thompson, Paul Cammack, Philippe Dubé, Josie Baxter, Maggie Roe, Lyn Leader-Elliott, John Studley, Stephanie K.Hawke, D. Jared Bowers, Mark Toogood, Owen T. Nevin, Peter Swain, Rachel M. Dunk, Mary-Ann Smyth, Lisa J. Gibson, Stefaan Dondeyne, Randi Kaarhus, Gaia Allison, Ellie Lindsay, Andrew RamsayTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Place - Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis and Ian Convery Land, Territory and Identity - David Storey Viewing the Emergence of Scenery from the Lakes - Mark Haywood Cumbrians and their 'ancient kingdom': Landscape, Literature and Regional Identity - Penny Bradshaw Gypsies, Travellers and Place: a co-ethnography - Ian Convery and Vincent O'Brien Rural People and the Land - Michael Woods and Jesse Heley and Carol Richards and Suzie Watkin Hill farming identities and connections to place - Lois Mansfield Place, Culture and Everyday Life in Kyrgyz Villages - Vincent O'Brien and Kenesh Djusipov and Tamara Kudaibergenova Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Jennifer Rogers Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Ian Convery Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Eunice Simmons Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Andrew Weatherall Health, People and Forests - Amanda Bingley Achieving Memorable Places... 'Urban Sense of Place' for successful urban planning and renewal? - Michael Clark The Place of Art in the Public Art Gallery: A Visual Sense of Place`` - Rhiannon Mason The Place of Art in the Public Art Gallery: A Visual Sense of Place - Chris Whitehead and Helen Graham Survival sex work: vulnerable, violent and hidden lifescapes in the North East of England - Joanne & Christopher Hartworth Survival sex work: vulnerable, violent and hidden lifescapes in the North East of England - Ian Convery Gardens, Parks and Sense of Place - Ian Thompson Gardens: places for nature and human-nature interaction - Paul Cammack and Ian Convery The Image Mill: A Sense of Place for a Museum of Images - Philippe Dubé Making Sense of Place and Landscape Planning at the Landscape Scale - Maggie Roe Cultural Landscape and Sense of Place: community and tourism representations of the Barossa - Lyn Leader-Elliot Territorial cults as a paradigm of place in Tibet - John Studley Heritage and sense of place: amplifying local voice and co-constructing Meaning - Stephanie K. Hawke Sense of Place in Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study in the Rainforest and Savannahs of Guyana - Gerard Corsane Sense of Place in Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study in the Rainforest and Savannahs of Guyana - D Jared Bowers Placing the Maasai - Mark Toogood Nature Tourism: Do bears create a sense of place? - Owen Nevin and Peter Swain and Ian Convery What's Up? Climate change and our relationship with the hills - Rachel Dunk and Mary-Ann Smyth and Lisa. J Gibson Nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: which space do local communities get? - Stefaan Dondeyne Nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: which space do local communities get? - Randi Kaaarhus Nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: which space do local communities get? - Gaia Allison Rainforests, Place and Palm Oil in Sabah, Borneo - Ellie Lindsay and Andrew Ramsey and Ian Convery and Eunice Simmons Afterword: Untying the Rope - Josephine Baxter

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true, from Tintagel in Cornwall to Caerleon in Wales. But how and why did Arthurian sites come to proliferate across the English and Welsh landscape? What role did the medieval custodians of Arthurian abbeys, churches, cathedrals, and castles play in "placing" Arthur? How did visitors experience Arthur in situ, and how did their experiences permeate into wider Arthurian tradition? And why, in history and even today, have particular places proven so powerful in defending the impression of Arthur's reality? This book, the first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales, provides an answer to these questions. Beginning with an examination of on-site experiences of Arthur, at locations including Glastonbury, York, Dover, and Cirencester, it traces the impact that they had on visitors, among them John Hardyng, John Leland, William Camden, who subsequently used them as justification for the existence of Arthur in their writings. It shows how the local Arthur was manifested through textual and material culture: in chronicles, notebooks, and antiquarian works; in stained glass windows, earthworks, and display tablets. Via a careful piecing together of the evidence, the volume argues that a new history of Arthur begins to emerge: a local history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Place and the defence of Arthur 1. 'Thise were his places and his habitacions': Arthur in situ in the fifteenth century 2. Contentious places: Reconciling Arthurian places in the fifteenth century 3. The Best of the West: John Leland's West Country Arthur 4. Locating Arthur in England and Wales: John Leland, John Prise, and Elis Gruffydd 5. Placing Arthur in William Camden's Britannia Coda: Arthur's local renaissance?

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Book SynopsisProvincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth. Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps – made with greater accuracy than ever before – reveal their early development. This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735–1809), who travelled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age.Trade Review“A treasure trove of a book and an excellent starting point for anyone seeking to understand what British towns in the eighteenth century looked like.” * Peter Borsay, Aberystwyth University *

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Book SynopsisFrom the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the geopolitical placement of Ukraine drew the attention of some of Europe’s most influential cartographers. Many of these maps, including ones of exceptional rarity, were collected by the Ukrainian scholar and journalist Bohdan Krawciw. Krawciw traced the physical and aesthetic depiction of Ukraine across its changing borders as a means of self-recognition and as a cultural and political history of the contested nation and its peoples. Of special interest are his maps of Ukraine from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the crossroads of four empires: Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet. As part of his personal archive, Krawciw’s maps were bequeathed to Harvard University upon his death in 1975. This book serves as both a catalog of his collection and a description of how the maps he collected serve as an invaluable source for Ukraine’s history and a symbol of Ukrainian national identity. The book contains nearly 100 examples from the collection, many in full color, as well as indices listing maps by cartographer and by place name.

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Book SynopsisOne of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding. Every history of West Virginia’s creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession from the Union and seek their independence from the rest of the state. In The Fifth Border State, Scott A. MacKenzie offers the first new interpretation of the topic in over a century—one that corrects earlier histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.Employing previously unused sources and reexamining existing ones, MacKenzie argues that West Virginia experienced the Civil War in the same ways as the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Like these northernmost slave states, northwestern Virginia supported the institution of slavery out of proportion to the actual presence of enslavement there. The people who became West Virginians built a new state first to protect slavery, but radical Unionists and escaping slaves forced emancipation on the statehood movement. MacKenzie shows how conservatives and radicals clashed over Black freedom, correcting many myths about West Virginia’s origins and making The Fifth Border State an important addition to the literature in Appalachian and Civil War history.Trade Review“A refreshing new look at how West Virginia became a state. I can see The Fifth Border State appealing widely to scholars of the Civil War era.”—William Hal Gorby, West Virginia UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Northwestern Virginia’s Path towards Reconciliation, 1829–1851 2. Northwestern Virginia on the Defensive, 1851–1860 3. Northwestern Virginia in the Secession Crisis, January to July 1861 4. The Conservative Phase of the West Virginia Statehood Movement, August 1861 to February 1862 5. The Radical Phase of the West Virginia Statehood Movement, March 1862 to June 1863 6. West Virginia under Radical Rule, June 1863 to December 1869 Epilogue: West Virginia Redeemed, 1870–1872 Appendix A: An Appeal of the People of West Virginia to Congress, Suggesting for the Consideration of Members Material Facts Appendix B: Report of the Minority to Lincoln’s Border State Emancipation Plan, July 15, 1862 Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently been uncovered in Sweden and are being curated there by the Grenna Museum. The three unpublished diaries of Herbert Chermside were lent to the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1939 by Mrs. Benjamin Leigh Smith. For the first time, Chermside’s diaries are published in their entirety, with the original photographs shown alongside modern images of the same locations. This includes the first photographic record of the north coast of Svalbard, images that are today being used as comparative data for the study of climate change in the archipelago.The diaries have been fully transcribed and edited. Introductory chapters are included, written by specialists in the history of exploration, history of science, and the history of photography from Penn State University, the University of Gothenburg, and UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, as well as contributors from the UK and Germany.This volume is published in association with Grenna Museum, which will present Chermside’s photographs in a 2022 exhibit on Leigh Smith and A.E. Nordenskiold.Table of ContentsForeword by Charlotte Moore, author and descendent of Benjamin Leigh SmithForeword by Håkan Jorikson, Director of Grenna Museum (Swedish)Introduction: Herbert C. Chermside and his chronicle of Benjamin Leigh Smith’s 1873 exploration of Spitzbergen by P.J. CapelottiOne: The 19th century exploration of Spitzbergen by Susan BarrTwo: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and the Swedish expedition of 1872-73 by Urban WråkbergThree: Axel W. Engvall and Leigh Smith’s rescue of Nordenskiöld by Anders LarssonFour: Alfred Eaton and the biological collections of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition by C.L. DevlinFive: Chermside's observations of marine mammals during a Spitzbergen hunt by C.L. DevlinSix: Chermside’s Arctic birds by Magnus ForsbergSeven: The discovery of Chermside’s Spitzbergen photographs by Håkan Jorikson and Anders LarssonEight: Chermside’s Spitzbergen imagery, then and now by Tyrone Martinsson and Andreas UmbreitNine: Chermside’s diary of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition edited by P.J. CapelottiAppendix 1: Spitzbergen/Svalbard Place Names, 1873 and currentAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a contribution to the decipherment of Ptolemy's universal map, with focus on the territory known as Dacia. The information provided by Ptolemy was translated into modern data considering local features and complying with certain general principles. The difficulty of this task consisted in the way the ancient manuscripts transmitted the original location coordinates, as well as in the way Ptolemy patched together information from ancient itineraries and other sources.The author of this volume conceived a general formula for mapping Dacia based on the information found in the two oldest sources he used. Furthermore, he determined local patterns with the help of the other sources – therefore, defining locations resulted in a better determination of the surrounding relative positions. This information, as well as the correlation of the Ptolemaic locations with archaeological findings, provides an increased recognition of Ptolemaic Dacia, while also contributing to exposing the Ptolemaic universal map.Table of Contents Introduction CHAPTER 1. General Ptolemaic Principles CHAPTER 2. Ptolemaic and Modern Earth Models. Initial Methodological Framework CHAPTER 3. Ptolemaic Poleis and Places in Dacia and in Adjacent areas. What We Know CHAPTER 4. Establishing Local Working Algorithms CHAPTER 5. Calculating the Coordinates of Some Dacian Poleis from the Established Grid CHAPTER 6. A Synthesis on the Local Ptolemaic Patterns in Dacia CHAPTER 7. SWOT Analysis CHAPTER 8. Limits, Rivers, Tribes and Neighbours of Ptolemaic Dacia Conclusive remarks Bibliography List of Figures List of Tables Index

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Book SynopsisJust as global perceptions of Xinjiang have shifted dramatically, so too has scholarship on the history, culture, and politics of the Uyghur homeland experienced a sea-change. A field once dominated by philology and geopolitical analysis has, since the 1990s, become a site of vibrant interdisciplinary practice. Uyghur studies - particularly research on gender, family, and the village economy - are now often found at the intersection of anthropological fieldwork, discursive analysis, textual studies, and social history. This volume collects a series of studies on these themes, drawing upon the innovative work of one of the field's leading figures, Ildiko Beller-Hann. The result is a snapshot both of the Uyghur region (and beyond) in the midst of change, and of a field of scholarship that is evolving as the voices of people from the region themselves increasingly come to the fore. More than a reflection on the genealogy of this field's knowledge and methodologies, this is a celebration of scholarly community - and of the people at its center.

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Book SynopsisJust as global perceptions of Xinjiang have shifted dramatically, so too has scholarship on the history, culture, and politics of the Uyghur homeland experienced a sea-change. A field once dominated by philology and geopolitical analysis has, since the 1990s, become a site of vibrant interdisciplinary practice. Uyghur studies - particularly research on gender, family, and the village economy - are now often found at the intersection of anthropological fieldwork, discursive analysis, textual studies, and social history. This volume collects a series of studies on these themes, drawing upon the innovative work of one of the field's leading figures, Ildiko Beller-Hann. The result is a snapshot both of the Uyghur region (and beyond) in the midst of change, and of a field of scholarship that is evolving as the voices of people from the region themselves increasingly come to the fore. More than a reflection on the genealogy of this field's knowledge and methodologies, this is a celebration of scholarly community - and of the people at its center.

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