Historical geography Books
Smithsonian Books How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People
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£14.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc Names on the Land: A Historical Account of
Book SynopsisGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life.Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t.Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.
£20.70
University of Alaska Press Exploring and Mapping Alaska: The Russian America
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£999.99
University Press of Colorado Over the Range: A History of the Promontory
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£999.99
WW Norton & Co Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the
Book SynopsisHailed as an “arresting” (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature’s Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that totally transformed Europe’s social and political fabric. Best-selling historian Philipp Blom reveals how a new, radically altered Europe emerged out of the “Little Ice Age” that diminished crop yields across the continent, forcing thousands to flee starvation in the countryside to burgeoning urban centers, and even froze London’s Thames, upon which British citizens erected semipermanent frost fairs with bustling kiosks, taverns, and brothels. Highlighting how politics and culture also changed drastically, Blom evokes the era’s most influential artists and thinkers who imagined groundbreaking worldviews to cope with environmental cataclysm. As we face a climate crisis of our own, “Blom’s prodigious synthesis delivers a sharply-focused lesson for the twenty-first century: the profound effects of just a few degrees of climate change can alter the course of civilization, forever” (Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History).
£12.99
Bloomsbury Publishing USA The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient
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£26.35
Nimbus Publishing Ltd Grand Pre: Landscape for the World
Book SynopsisIn 2012 the Landscape of Grand Pre, which includes the entire Grand Pre Marsh and portions of North Grand Pre, Hortonville, Grand Pre, and Lower Wolfville, was declared Nova Scotia's third UNESCO World Heritage Site. This newest addition to the Stories of our Past series details the area's physical and cultural evolution in an accessible, highly visual format. Grand Pre explores the interrelationship of the peoples and landscape of Grand Pre, from the legacies of the dykelands to the record-breaking tides of the Minas Basin. With a focus on the resilient first peoples of Grand Pre-the Mi'kmaq and the Acadians-the book explores the implications of the Grand Derangement, including the arrival of New England Planter and Scots settlers, the twentieth-century Acadian Renaissance, and the creation of the "Land of Evangeline." Includes informative sidebars and 50 colour photos.
£15.15
University of Louisiana Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of
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£23.75
University of Hertfordshire Press Lost Frontier Revealed: Regional Separation in
Book SynopsisSeeking to draw new conclusions about settlement distributions and population densities, patterns of wealth, underprivileged assistance, and land usage, this reference uses multiple criteria to subdivide England into regions. This unusual and probing study establishes the presence of an informal cultural frontier between two proposed societies, which would lie astride the Leicestershire–Lincolnshire border, in order to identify cultural differences and divides that are clearly visible in the English countryside. Taking the unique approach of stressing early-modern-period rural landscapes, this examination looks at the enduring social and economic links between the area’s population and its landscape.Table of Contents1 The hypothesis 2 The Test Area 3 Land and people of the proposed frontier 4 Economic characteristics and contrasts 5 Cultural expressions 6 Personal spatial loyalties 7 Kinship and dynastic moulds 8 County and town polarities 9 Overall judgement and findings
£34.88
Les Belles Lettres Strabon, Geographie: Tome XV: Livre XVII, 2e
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£62.70
Les Belles Lettres Strabon, Geographie: Tome XIV: Livre XVII, 1ere
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£999.99
Brepols N.V. People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300
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£999.99
Brepols N.V. SEUH 30 The Power of Space in late medieval and
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£107.35
Brepols N.V. 'The Loss of a Minute Is Just So Much Loss of
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£95.00
Ifao Decrire, Imaginer, Construire l'Espace: Toponymie
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£30.40
Bohlau Verlag Usus aquarum: Interdisziplinäre Studien zur
Book SynopsisIm Mittelalter kam es durch neue Formen der Nutzung der Gewässer, insbesondere die Errichtung von Mühlen und damit verbundene wasserbauliche Maßnahmen, zu großen Veränderungen für Landschaft und Umwelt wie Siedlungsgefüge und soziale Strukturen. Der Band geht diesen Veränderungen nach. Die im Gefolge des hochmittelalterlichen Landesausbaus erfolgten gravierenden Veränderungen der Nutzung der Gewässer zeigen sich auf unterschiedliche Weise: in Schriftzeugnissen, archäologischen Funden und Befunden sowie in geographischen Namen. Die meisten Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich den Wassermühlen, u. a. auch ihren Benennungen; außerdem wird die Rolle von Flüssen als Verkehrswege beleuchtet. Geographisch liegt der Fokus vorrangig auf den Flussgebieten von Oder und Weichsel, weiterhin aber auch auf denjenigen von Elbe, Rhein, Main und Donau sowie auf Transsilvanien.
£65.04
Harrassowitz Manuscripts Changing Hands: Handschriften
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£89.30
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Religion in Der Postkonfessionellen Gesellschaft:
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£77.90
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Living Translocality: Space, Culture and Economy
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£68.40
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH The Spatiality of Livelihoods - Negotiations of
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£999.99
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Orbis Terrarum 16 (2018)
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£155.80
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Strabons Geographika Band 10: Register
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£314.14
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Migration and Landscape Transformation: Changes
Book SynopsisThe shape of today's landscape has been heavily influenced by human intervention since the 19th century. Changes in agriculture, industrialization and state spatial planning promoted the change in land use. The ideal-typical separation between "destroyed" and "healty" nature eventually led to the protection of certain landscapes that had not yet been fully developed. Migration movements promoted this landscape change. In Central and Eastern Europe, the consequences of emigration and urbanization overlapped with the profound break of compulsory migrations during the Second World War and immediately thereafter. As a result of this, as well as through structural policy in the countries of state socialism after 1945, many areas of this region changed fundamentally. The authors of the publication are examining in an exemplary way how migration has led to landscape changes in Eastern Europe. Besides state landscape planning in the context of controlled migrations, it is also about the role of migrants and their dealings with landscape. The volume is closed by three contributions, in which interpretations and forms of presentation of landscape change in textbooks and on educational trails are analyzed.
£52.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Leidenschaft Des Sammelns: Streifzuge Durch
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£999.99
Universitatsverlag Winter Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in
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£47.50
Dr Ludwig Reichert Raum - Landschaft - Territorium: Zur Konstruktion
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£111.15
V&R Unipress Geographie fur eine Welt im Wandel: 57. Deutscher
Book SynopsisWhat is modern scientific geography concerned with today? This volume discusses selected themes in physical and human geography, methodological approaches, societal significance and teaching methods. The 19 chapters include general themes such as contributions on locations, mobility and planning, articles on mountain areas, climate change and ecological issues. Finally, didactic and methodological questions are addressed. The volume seeks to inform, discuss and further develop the latest relevant research findings. It addresses scientific geography, applied and practical geography (in regional planning and development, location development, town planning, cartography, geo computer science) as well as school teachers.The book is the result of the 57th German Geographers'' Congress held in Vienna in 2009.
£64.56
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Al Di Qua Delle Colonne dErcole
£40.91
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Atlante Tematico Di Topografia Antica 20-2010
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£999.99
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Atlante Tematico Di Topografia Antica 21-2011
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£999.99
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Atlante Tematico Di Topografia Antica 22-2012
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£999.99
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
Melissa Publishing House The French Expedition to the Morea: 1829-1838
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£335.75
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.
£999.99
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.
£999.99
