Historical geography Books
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Atlante Tematico Di Topografia Antica 22-2012
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£207.10
Brill An Atlas of the Tibetan Plateau
Book Synopsis- Browse an online sample copy of the Atlas. - Read an interview with author Michael Farmer. - Download sample map 30. - Download sample map 78. The Atlas shows for the first time the contemporary geography of the entire Tibetan Plateau, an area where major powers (China, India and Pakistan) meet in the highest landscape on earth, originally occupied by the unique, ancient Buddhist civilisation of Tibet.Trade Review"After the publication of A Historical Atlas of Tibet by Ryavec, I thought that the final word on the historical cartography of Tibet had definitely been written: I was wrong! The commitment to write another work dedicated to the current state of the Tibetan plateau withmore research and database constructionhas been fulfilled by architect and cartographer Michael Farmer, who has been involved with Tibetan culture for many years. With this magnum opus, which took decades to complete, he has compiled an essential reference work warmly welcomed by scholars and students interested in learning about contemporary Tibet as well as spiritual practitioners (...)." -Giorgio Dallorto, The Mirror 157 · September 2022.
£149.00
Peeters Publishers Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity: Exploring
Book SynopsisHow we concieve of the movement of ancient phenomena through time and space has been undergoing reassessment over the last two decades, causing the grip to be loosened on the well-entrenched interpretative models that had dominated research up to that point. The 'Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity' conference, held in Vancouver on March 16-17, 2007, aimed to take stock of this situation and in particular to investigate in fresh ways how regional and global phenomena in the ancient Mediterranean, Near East and Eurasia shaped local life. Still today two models tend to guide explanations of intercultural and interregional contact and interaction: diffusionism from cores (or centres) to peripheries, involving 'superior' civilisations influencing other 'inferior' ones, and Mediterraneanism, the set of distinctive environmental, cultural and historical images that create a unified and unchanging view of the Mediterranean. These two models have come under increasing scrunity since the 1980s, as we have been living in a world of shifting perceptions of time and space and of greater interconnectedness that affects our everyday lives in numerous ways. The source of these shifts has been credited to globalisation, and with it has also come a greater historical appreciation of the phenomenon, including the recognition that the world has witnessed periods of globalisation since the end of the Ice Age. This volume contains 14 reworked and peer-reviewed essays from the original conference proceedings and provides a fair overview of the various chronological periods, methods and data, and perspectives encountered at the conference. The essays consist of case studies whose subjects range in date from the 10th millennium BC to the 4th century AD and draw in all the major regions of the ancient world. These essays and the original conference from which they derive have by no means exhausted all the potential topics raised by the framework within which they work. Much work remains to be done for antiquity and, given the framework's wide applicability, later periods of history.
£94.05
Peeters Publishers An Approach to the Historical Geography of the
Book SynopsisThis book examines the historical geography of the southern Black Sea littoral in the first millennium BC. Notwithstanding the remarkable development of research on the Black Sea in antiquity over the last few decades, the southern littoral remains an area several aspects of which have still not been thoroughly studied, while the archaeological investigation has only very recently started to be held in numerous parts of the coast and in a more systematic way. This monograph aims to examine the most significant aspects of the historical geography of this region, in the light of all the written and archaeological evidence that is available so far: First of all, the littoral’s natural environment, namely the geographic stage on which the numerous peoples that inhabited it developed their civilisations and economies. Furthermore, the indigenous peoples of the littoral, most of which have never been given as detailed an examination as, for example, the Greek colonists there, and our knowledge of them is scanty. Of course, the Greek presence and colonisation in the southern Black Sea is also studied, as is the existence of other peoples, who were neither indigenous nor colonists but still had a presence in the littoral, whether as invaders (e.g. the Cimmerians), or as political overlords (e.g. the Persians). Finally, stress is laid on the urban development along the littoral: what kinds of settlements and installations were created, in which places, and with what frequency. Thus, the book offers for the first time in modern scholarship a detailed examination of the historical geography of the ca. 1000 km-long southern Black Sea littoral over the thousand years before Christ.
£115.00
Leiden University Press Ishikawa Sanshir’s Geographical Imagination:
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£40.50
Double 9 Books Holland the History of the Netherlands
Book SynopsisHolland is a historical novel written by Thomas Colley Grattan. The novel, set against the backdrop of the 16th-century Dutch War of Independence, provides a vivid and dramatic picture of the Dutch people's battle against Spanish authority. Some narratives are brutal and weird, whereas others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. As the title character is so indulgent, readers are forced to keep reading to find out what happens next. The plot concentrates mostly upon Gerard, a Dutch patriot and military leader who becomes a crucial figure in the Dutch independence movement. Gerard's journey takes readers through the conflict's various stages, beginning with the early revolts and uprisings and ending with the establishment of the Dutch Republic. Along the way, the story explores themes of bravery, patriotism, and the continuous spirit of resistance. Grattan's Holland is well-known for its meticulous historical study and attention to detail, which provides readers with an exciting mix of truth and fiction. The book not only recounts a gripping story, but it also illuminates the larger historical and political context of the Dutch struggle for independence. Holland is a historical novel that exhibits Grattan's ability to convey the spirit of a nation's yearning for liberation.
£15.29
Double 9 Books The Philippine Islands Vol.- 52
Book SynopsisThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Volume 52, authored by Emma Helen Blair, offers a comprehensive exploration of Philippine history from 1626 to 1636. In this volume, Blair skillfully navigates the complexities of colonialism, shedding light on the intricate interactions between Spanish colonizers, indigenous communities, and global influences. Through meticulous research and scholarly analysis, Volume 51 reveals the political, social, and economic developments that characterized this period. Emma Helen Blair's work captures the challenges faced by Spanish authorities in maintaining control over their territories, as well as the resilient responses of the local populations. Drawing from primary sources and historical documents, the volume delves into the shifting power dynamics, trade networks, and religious changes that shaped the Philippines during these years. The narrative brings to life the negotiations, confrontations, and partnerships that defined the relationships between different stakeholders. This book has been deemed a classic and has been a great collection of ideas that are comprehended into a single draft to read by readers of several age groups. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Volume 52 is both modern and readable.
£13.49
Alpha Edition The Periplus of the Erythræan sea; travel and
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£18.89
Pentagon Press LLP Revisiting Myanmar Present Through Past
Book SynopsisThe February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar has had adverse impact on the country`s political, economic and social landscape, which was undergoing a democratic transition. It was a step back in the democratic journey the country had embarked upon since adopting the 2008 military-drafted Constitution. The military extended the emergency rule on 01 February 2023, and the elections to be conducted per the 2008 Constitution mandate were further deferred. Unlike the earlier two military coups, the opposition forces (National Unity Government, People`s Defence Forces and Ethnic Armed Organisations) reacted sharply to the military takeover. To understand the military takeover in Myanmar, it is important to revisit the country`s political, economic and socio-cultural realities. And this volume attempts to delve into the history behind the rise of the military, the opposition forces, the EAOs and the economic, social and political conditions of the country. Finally, Myanmar`s relations with the major international players, China, Russia, India, Japan and ASEAN, are also explored.
£54.15
BAI NV Archipel: Indonesia, Kingdoms of the Sea
Book SynopsisIndonesia and its more than 17,000 islands are spread out over a surface area equivalent to that of the European Union. As an area of confluences and encounters, the Indonesian archipelago has always been one of the most important crossroads of world trade, where Austronesian ships, Arab dhows, Chinese junks, Iberian caravels, and other ships of the East India Companies berthed long before the container ships and oil tankers of today. The history of this archipelago is that of a multitude of links and connections, where the near and the far intermingle, forced to compete in a ubiquitous maritime world. The sea brings together more than she separates, and the monsoon winds have made this intersection a mandatory stop for merchants, clerics, and foreign diplomats, whose presence has left traces in the myths, monuments, arts, and traditions of contemporary Indonesia. Overlapped, blended, reinterpreted by rich and complex societies, these inflows have forged multiple worlds that the relationship with the sea has finely coloured and chiselled. Archipel invites us to discover this world, with the sea as the common thread, and an exceptional collection of major artworks as markers of a history to be discovered and admired.
£32.62
Amsterdam University Press Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and
Book SynopsisBoth the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were especially concerned with why dry land existed. This book investigates why they were so interested in water’s failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been. Analyzing biblical commentaries as well as natural philosophical, geographical, and cosmographical texts from these periods, Lindsay Starkey shows that European sea voyages to the southern hemisphere combined with the traditional methods of European scholarship and religious reformations led sixteenth-century Europeans to reinterpret water and earth’s ontological and spatial relationships. The manner in which they did so also sheds light on how we can respond to our current water crisis before it is too late.Trade Review"Of the four elements that classical philosophy—and subsequently the hermeneutics of the Judaeo-Christian tradition—saw as forming the essence of life on Earth, water has undoubtedly received the greatest attention in both scientific and religious-philosophical writings. This fact is clearly demonstrated by Lindsay Starkey in Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. [...] Adopting a convincing line of argument, Starkey says that from the sixteenth century onwards there has been a shift away from a philosophical-religious approach to one that is more practical, discussing water more in terms of human activities (in particular, voyages of geographical discovery)."- Salvatore Ciriacono, Università degli Studi di Padova, Renaissance and Reformation 44.1 (Winter 2021) "Through the long-term approach, Starkey presents a novel and informative overview of developments in European intellectual thought over the course of a millennium and a half. [...] Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond is evidence of the important insights that can be gained through covering long time periods. The book is also an important contribution to the discussion of how people have understood their environment throughout history and adds to our understanding of early-modern world views." - Charlotta Forss, Imago Mundi, Vol. 74, Pt. 1Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Water? Chapter 1: Athens and Jerusalem on Water Part I: Water in Exegetical, Natural Philosophical, Cosmographical, and Geographical Texts from circa 1000-1600 Chapter 2: Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts Chapter 3: Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts Chapter 4: Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts Part II: Why Water Chapter 5: Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts Chapter 6: Exploring the Created Universe through Water Chapter 7: Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship Afterword: The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis Bibliography Index
£107.35
Melissa Publishing House The French Expedition to the Morea: 1829-1838
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£375.25
Central European University Press From Borderland to Burgenland
Book SynopsisThe area that constitutes the Austrian federal province of Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire until the end of World War I. This book helps us realize that geographical knowledge does not come ready-made. Instead, it is created by knowledge makers: geographers, historians, statisticians etc. This knowledge-making helped to legitimatize the area transferred between Austria and Hungary, shape the Burgenland identity, and depict its geopolitical role in the rise of national socialism. This book is about how those studying Burgenland, the creators of its geographical knowledge, saw and represented the province. It explores how they grasped the geographical characteristics of the region through their own perspective, influenced by their own professional positions, individual careers, motivations, and by the broader historical and social medium.The way the area between the provinces of Lower Austria and Styria came about as Burgenland is enthralling, as is how the people there experienced this change of sovereignty and how everyday social and economic relationships were transformed. Tracing the geographical discourses in the interwar period and beyond, the book argues that Burgenland became a successful geographical project, and departs from thoughts of subdivision, unviability, and backwardness, concentrating instead on fertility, unity, and modernization.
£72.90
Oxford University Press,Pakistan In Quest of Jinnah
Book SynopsisThis book is a compilation of previously unpublished and expunged portions of Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan by Hector Bolitho, the first biography of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Bolithoâs own diary and notes, and correspondence with functionaries of the Government of Pakistan and highly placed individuals in Britain, India,
£20.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian
Book SynopsisHow early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agreement among scholars that certain areas seem to have been mapped out prior to the arrival of Western explorers.Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map analyses the world's first modern map — known as Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (KWQ) 《坤輿萬國全圖》 in Chinese, translated as the 'Complete Geographical Map of All Kingdoms of the World' to demonstrate evidence of Chinese global exploration in the Pre-Columbian era. The map of concern was first printed by Italian missionary, Matteo Ricci in 1602, and has been purported to be of entirely European origin, based on Ricci's former maps which he had brought to China in 1582.This book, thus, seeks to be transformational in presenting essential new insights on Pre-Columbian world history and Chinese global exploration, moving away from the norm of the studies of geography and cartography by:
£130.50
NUS Press Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the
Book SynopsisThe eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of the inhabitants of this area are often described as “people without history,” in part because colonial borders long ago cut across shared underlying patterns of relations. Yet many of these societies were linked to transoceanic trading systems for millennia. Indeed, some of the world’s most prized commodities once came from territories which were either “stateless” or under the tenuous control of loosely structured polities in this region. In this book, trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than three hundred years, from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, when new technologies and changing markets helped lead to Western dominance. This book presents theories from the social sciences and economics that can help liberate scholars from dependence on states as narrative frameworks. It will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, state formation, the evolution of markets, and anthropology. Trade Review“In this epic work, Heather Sutherland brings decades of scholarship to bear on her examination of three centuries of trade on the periphery of Asia…. This is an attractive and well-laid-out book. Sutherland's scholarship has created a masterful work that will be appreciated by all interested in maritime Southeast Asia's colonial and pre-colonial past.” - Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic SocietyTable of Contents List of Maps List of Images Preface Chapter 1: Introduction PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter 2: The Cradle of Geography Chapter 3: Encounters Chapter 4: Patchwork Polities PART TWO: GLIMPSED HISTORIES Chapter 5: Commodity Wars before 1684 Chapter 6: Ungovernable Tides, 1684–1784 Chapter 7: Pivotal Decades, 1784–1819 Chapter 8: Equivocal Policies, Converging Trade, 1819–47 Chapter 9: Free Trade and Phantom Fleets, 1847–69 Chapter 10: Steam and Capital, 1869–1906 Chapter 11: In Retrospect Appendix Bibliography Index
£33.96
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Understanding
Book Synopsis""Know your enemies, know yourself"", advised Sun Zi in his famous Art of War (AoW). In contrast, the legendary Admiral Zheng He would have said, ""Know your collaborators, know yourself"", and this would be the essence of his Art of Collaboration (AoC). This book offers a fresh new approach to doing business and providing leadership in the twenty-first century, where Zheng He's peaceful and win-win collaborative paradigm present in his AoC provides an alternative to the aggressive and antagonistic mindset inherent in Sun Zi's AoW. The author has culled from the existing literature on the historical, cultural, diplomatic, and maritime-oriented Zheng He, connected the dots of his discovery of a managerial Zheng He, and wrote this book to present both the big message of Zheng He's Art of Collaboration as well as an understanding of Zheng He's specific work as a leader and manager.
£22.75
NUS Press The Singapore River: A Social History, 1819-2002
Book SynopsisFor most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepôt trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century. Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and workplace. He describes the tidal swamp in the early days of the British settlement, where merchants ignored Raffles much-vaunted city plan and built their businesses on the limited high ground along the marshy riverbanks. Later, even as the long distance shipping moved to new port facilities elsewhere on the island, the river remained the base for a large regional trade, and boatmen and businessmen struggled to cope with silting, over-crowding, and bridges that were too low to be passed at high tide. Looking at the post-war years, Dobbs zeros in on the boatmen who carried goods between the ""godowns"" or warehouses along the river and the freighters lying at anchor in the roads. Despite its pollution, the river remained home to a vital community of coolies and tally clerks, and the tumultuous urban life that swirled around them. Today the waterfront community has been relocated. The shophouses and warehouses along the river are now chic cafes and upmarket restaurants, fish have returned to the Singapore River, and urban dwellers stroll on walks along the river's edge. Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's many transformations during the past two centuries.
£23.36
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Chinese Global Exploration In The Precolumbian Era Evidence From An Ancient World Map
£52.25
Blacksmith Books The Peak: An Illustrated History of Hong Kong's
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£21.21
NUS Press Singapore: An Atlas of Perpetual Territorial
Book SynopsisSince 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental transformation and innovation. The island of Singapore is small (currently about 720 sq km), and the government has thoroughly transformed and extended the lands under its control to serve the needs and ambitions of its citizens. The systematic overhaul of the Singaporean environment reflects a deliberate policy of social transformation, a revolution controlled and monitored from above.Singapore's accomplishments in the realm of economic and social development are of great importance but have received little attention. Based on an extended series of diachronic maps, this book illustrates the nature and depth of the territorial changes that have occurred since the early 1960s. The commentary that accompanies the maps shows how Singapore has used this ongoing territorial transformation to support its position in a globalized economy, and also as a tool of social and political management.
£24.12
Experiment The Shortest History of Migration
£12.71
