Historical geography Books
Lexington Books Privileging Water in Lima Mexico City and New
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Independently Published Another Man In Pursuit of Spring: Revisiting Edward Thomas' 1913 Cycle Ride From Wandsworth To Somerset
£14.56
Nimbus Publishing (CN) Seanchaidh Na Coille / the Memory-Keeper of the Forest
£21.84
Tellwell Talent Historic Pictures
£16.03
Mercier Press The Secret Places of the Burren
£12.99
Benediction Classics Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip
£16.59
Benediction Classics Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 1
£28.46
Benediction Classics Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
Book SynopsisSince then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer; Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.Trade Review'For the first time in several generations, Duane Roller offers readers a clear, comprehensive and authoritative survey of ancient geographical thought from its mythic origins in Homer right through to the fall of the Roman Empire. Ancient Geography is the distillation of decades of work on the subject by Roller, who is also a distinguished translator of the key books he discusses here. Ancient Geography immediately eclipses the introductions to the subject offered by previous scholars and should hold its place as the single key treatment of the topic for generations to come for classicists, geographers and historians alike.' -Robert Mayhew, Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History, University of Bristol, 'In this elegant and readable narrative, Duane Roller adroitly recreates the sense of wonder, excitement, and adventure that permeated Greek and Roman geographical initiatives. The result is a vivid tapestry of the many threads of ancient geographical thought that have been untangled from myriad layers of discord, transmission, redaction, and (mis)interpretation in the ancient sources. The book will be warmly and appreciatively welcomed by students of classical history and geography and indeed by anyone with an interest in how antiquity conceived of the world and its features.' - Georgia L Irby, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, 'What Duane Roller has achieved in this book is impressive and invaluable. The Greek and Roman grasp of geography, from both spatial and scientific perspectives, developed remarkably over more than half a millennium. So while the approach taken here of explaining this growth chronologically might seem a straightforward task, in fact it is no such thing. Most of the relevant geographical writings and maps are lost. Even some fundamentally important Greek ideas have to be reconstructed from references by later authors who did not always agree with them, let alone perhaps fully understand them. Roller's earlier studies of such giants in this story as Pytheas, Eratosthenes and Strabo make him uniquely qualified to craft an informed, balanced, up-to-date synthesis in defiance of the never-ending obstacles. He writes in a concise, accessible style. Anyone whose imagination is fired by the absorbing puzzle of how the Greeks and Romans envisioned and recorded their surroundings both near and far should read this important book.' - Richard J A Talbert, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Classics, University of North Carolina, editor of Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
£29.44
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd A Short History of the World in 50 Places
Book SynopsisDiscover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where remains of some of our earliest tool-using ancestors were found, to the CERN laboratory, where revolutionary technologies such as the World Wide Web were developed, each entry shows its influence on not just politics, but on the economy, culture, religion and society, as well as their links to great historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Buddha and Nelson Mandela. The size of the places ranges from small geographical features like a cave in Saudi Arabia where Islam began, to larger areas or regions, like Hollywood. Many entries are cities, such Jerusalem, Amritsar, and Rome, some others are buildings, like Anne Frank’s House in the Netherlands or the Confucius Temple in China, and there are even some that are rooms, such as the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles Palace. No place is too big or too small to be included, as long as it has had a significant impact on history.
£12.34
Pantianos Classics My Life as an Explorer: Autobiography of the First Man to Reach the
Book SynopsisRoald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole – this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundsen begins by explaining that he was not born with an urge to explorer the farthest, uncharted regions of the world. At fifteen he received as a gift the memoirs of Sir John Franklin, a famous British explorer, which roused an immediate interest. This was increased further by Amundsen’s compulsory military service, part of which consisted of roaming the rugged, snowy outdoors. Almost immediately after the end of his time in the army, further explorations deep in the Arctic circle beckoned.At twenty-five, Amundsen was accepted into the Belgian Antarctic Expedition – an event he considers very lucky. For it was here that he gained his first experiences of the Antarctic climate, and began to contemplate organizing a team to reach the South Pole. It was an epic journey; Amundsen’s team, equipped with sleds run by dogs and clad in thick furs, famously became the first people ever to set foot on the South Pole.Later in the book, Amundsen explains his efforts to chart the Northwest Passage in the remotest wildernesses of Canada. To this end, he made use of aircraft in the early 1920s. However, owing to the economic turmoil after World War One he found it difficult to finance his expeditions. Nevertheless, his spirit remained undaunted – indeed, the tenacity that got Roald Amundsen so far shines in these pages.
£13.41
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Zeticula Ltd Kintyre Places and Place-Names
Book SynopsisKintyre poet and historian Angus Martin's interest in placea'names extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers over 200 Gaelic place-name elements, plus many others of Norse, Scots and English origin. Over 1200 individual place-names are examined, from the well-known to the obscure and forgotten. These names are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from mid-19th century Ordnance Survey maps and field notebooks to fishermen and shepherds whose store of names contained many known only to themselves. As well as looking at the origin and meaning of place-names, Martin also looks at their historical associations - the events and families connected with them - to provide a full and fascinating account which will illuminate the landscape of his native Kintyre. This, then, is a book which will interest not only students of place-names, but also archaeologists, local historians, genealogists, naturalists, and anyone with a passion for Kintyre and its colourful past.Trade Review'What we have here is far from being the average book on place-names. There is history - There's genealogy - There are notes on Kintyre writers and bards - The pages are full - as the now-deserted steadings and sheilings once were - of Kintyre people from the distant and the more recent past, working, fishing, farming, living hard but well.' Moira Burgess, Kintyre Magazine.
£17.95
Zeticula Ltd Kintyre: The Hidden Past
Book SynopsisThis social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a new Introduction by the author, a native of Kintyre who knows its geography intimately. The greater part of the book is based on original research from a wide range of sources, from nineteenth century registers of the poor to material passed on through the oral tradition. It traces the evolution of the extraordinarily mixed stock of Kintyre from the Gaelic settlement in the fifth century AD through the subsequent settlements of the Lowlanders and Irish, and explores the nature of these diverse cultural legacies. The darker aspects of social history - epidemic diseases, sanitary and housing conditions and destitution - are also explored, and the sinister activities of grave-robbers in nineteenth century Kintyre are substantiated for the first time. There is also information on Irish immigrant families, the anglicisation of native surnames and surviving Gaelic elements in the local dialect.
£13.95
White Horse Press The Steppe to Europe: An Environmental History of Hungary in the Traditional Age
Book SynopsisThis book, a much-augmented translation of the author's original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings. Data on climate, agriculture, mining, hunting, urban development and political administration are synthesised to create a rich account of a people in the environment, and the processes of adaptation, exploitation and co-existence required for survival. Importantly, it offers anglophone readers access a considerable digest of important scholarship previously only available in Hungarian. Until now, there has been no environmental history in English of Hungary and the wider region from which the present country crystallised. The book covers the environmental history of Hungary prior to the Industrial Revolution. It begins with the prehistory of the two protagonists in this environmental story, the Carpathian Basin and the Hungarians; and traces the transformation of the Hungarians, under environmental, social and economic forces, from nomadic tribes to a settled society in the Middle Ages. The environmental developments of the later Middle Ages, a period of relative stability, are explored before the story turns to a long era of war with the Ottoman Empire, during which the key to survival lay in finding adaptive forms of settlement and subsistence systems. Finally, the book chronicles the age of reconstruction following the Ottoman wars and the challenges posed as the country's population more than doubled, a growth unmatched by agricultural or industrial development. The present volumes leaves Hungary at the dawn of the Industrial Age, a country displaying symptoms of over-population and environmental over-exploitation.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1. THE PRINCIPALS CHAPTER 2. CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT CHAPTER 3. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES CHAPTER 4. THE OTTOMAN AGE CHAPTER 5. THE CENTURY OF REBUILDING EPILOGUE. NOTES FOR A FURTHER STUDY BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX: TABLE OF PLACE-NAMES IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN INDEX
£65.00
The Lilliput Press Ltd Goodly Barrow: A Voyage on an Irish River
Book SynopsisThis title charts the history and character of Ireland's second longest river, from the Slieve Bloom mountains to the sea in Waterford. Irish history is viewed through the prism of this waterway: from the early tribal kingdoms of the Celts, to the Vikings and Normans who made their way up the estuary, leaving a legacy of castles, abbeys, monasteries and towns, to the Tudor and Cromwellian settlements on the fertile plains of Carlow and Kildare, from Quaker bridge-builders to Huguenot refugees. This riverine narrative embraces legend and lore, literature and anecdote. It opens up a little-known part of Ireland's countryside and heritage, and forms a chronicle encompassing the medieval poet Edmund Spenser and novelist Sean O'Faolain.
£15.19
Hobnob Press A Motcombe Miscellany
£12.36
Clink Street Publishing Loxley: Wanderings in a Curious Valley
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Hephaestion Press Rambles Round Glasgow (annotated): With a new introduction and notes by K C Murdarasi
£16.14
Seanie Lonergan Cahir History Stories
£15.05
Roy Ratcliffe Life On Earth Past Present Future
£15.19
Faithful Life Publishers The True Red Sea Crossing to the True Mount Sinai
£12.39
Simon & Schuster Power of Geography
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future.Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has. Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” (Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane; why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China; how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power; why Ethiopia can control Egypt; and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space. Innovative, compelling, and delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is “an immersive blend of history, economics, and political analysis that puts geography at the center of human affairs” (Publishers Weekly).
£16.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp North American Bigfoot
£18.52
BoD - Books on Demand Histoire de la ville de Thouars depuis lan 759 jusquen 1815
£24.60
Les Prairies Numeriques Heart of Darkness
£16.24
De Gruyter Infrastruktur und Herrschaftsorganisation im
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Brill The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
Book SynopsisThis book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.Trade Review"Cet ouvrage est donc un moment fort dans la constitution d’un corpus de données qui permettront une réflexion sur les relations entre l’interculturalité et les objets graphiques qui la rendent visible." – Hervé Regnauld, in: espacestemps "… a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road." – RANIN KAZEMI, Department of History, Yale University, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010), 323–367 "Accompanied by beautifully reproduced color figures, the articles in this volume weigh intriguing questions about the transmission of visual knowledge, considering, for example, how cultural blind spots can lead to copyists’ inaccuracies or how indigenous and foreign styles can affect one another. It is a rich feast for both experts and general readers and will invite far more transnational research on the Silk Road." – LIANG CAI, in: Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42 (2010)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Transliterations and Conventions List of Illustrations and Maps Foreword - Lorenz Hurni Preface: What Is a Map? - Valerie Hansen INTRODUCTION - Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony PART I: THE BUDDHIST ROAD 1 Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty Iconography: Questions and Hypotheses - Nicolas Zufferey 2 Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road - Natasha Heller 3 The Mapping of Sacred Space: Images of Buddhist Cosmographies in Medieval China - Dorothy C. Wong PART II: THE MONGOL ROAD 4 Lost in Translation: Gridded Plans and Maps along the Silk Road - Jonathan Bloom 5 Square Horoscope Diagrams in Middle Eastern Astrology and Chinese Cosmological Diagrams: Were These Designs Transmitted through the Silk Road? - Johannes Thomann 6 The Intrusion of East Asian Imagery in Thirteenth-Century Armenia: Political and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road - Dickran Kouymjian PART III: WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD 7 Comparing al-Kāshgharī’s Map to His Text: On the Visual Language, Purpose, and Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Maps - Andreas Kaplony 8 The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East - Yossef Rapoport PART IV: THE MEDITERRANEAN ROAD 9 Celestial Maps and Illustrations in Arabic-Islamic Astronomy - Paul Kunitzsch 10 Revisiting Catalan Portolan Charts: Do They Contain Elements of Asian Provenance? - Sonja Brentjes CONCLUSION - Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony Appendix: List of Geographical Nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī’s Text and Map - Andreas Kaplony General Bibliography Index
£100.80
Brill Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography: Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert
Book SynopsisIn Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography colleagues and students honor Richard J.A. Talbert for his numerous contributions and influence on the fields of ancient history, political and social science, as well as cartography and geography. This collection of original and useful examinations is focused around the core theme of Talbert’s work – how ancient individuals and groups organized their world, through their institutions and geography. The first half of the book considers institutional history in chapters on such diverse topics as the Roman Senate, Roman provincial politics and administration, healing springs, gladiators, and soldiers. Chapters on the geography of Thucydides and Alexander III, imperial geography, tracking letters and using sundials round out the second half of the book.Trade Review"The volume achieves three distinct objectives. First, by adopting a diachronic approach, the editors encourage the reader to draw connections across time and discipline. (...) Second, while this volume, as is typical with Festschriften, demonstrates an extraordinary diversity in topics, each article remains extraordinarily accessible. As such, even non-experts would find a starting point for further exploration. Third, Talbert’s scholarship is a part of each paper, demonstrating further his broad influence on scholarship of antiquity. Scholars, though their interests may range from Alexander’s wars to late-antique dioceses, will find something of value in this volume, not just in their area of expertise, but in others as well. Much like Talbert’s many important contributions, this volume should find itself in libraries of ancient historians and philologist of extremely diverse interests." Laurent J. Cases in BMCR 2018.12.42Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Maps List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1 - Introduction Chaps and Maps: Reflections on a Career with Institutional and Cartographic History Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes Cumulative Bibliography of Works by Richard J.A. Talbert Tom Elliott Part 2 - Roman Institutions 1 Plutarchan Prosopography: The Cursus Honorum Philip A. Stadter 2 The Lex Julia de Senatu Habendo: A View from the 1930s Jonathan Scott Perry 3 Tacitus on Trial(s) Leanne Bablitz 4 Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House Sarah E. Bond 5 Second Chance for Valor: Restoration of Order After Mutinies and Indiscipline Lee L. Brice 6 Training Gladiators: Life in the Ludus Garrett G. Fagan 7 Statuenehrungen als Zeugnis für den Einfluss römischer Amtsträger im Leben einer Provinz Werner Eck 8 Dio Chrysostom as a Local Politician: A Critical Reappraisal Christopher J. Fuhrmann 9 Late Antique Administrative Structures: On the Meaning of Dioceses and their Borders in the Fourth Century AD Daniëlle Slootjes Part 3 - Geography and Cartographic History 10 The Geography of Thucydides Cheryl L. Golden 11 An Anatolian Itinerary, 334–333 BC Fred S. Naiden 12 Visualizing Empire in Imperial Rome Mary T. Boatwright 13 The Provinces and Worldview of Velleius Paterculus Brian Turner 14 Litterae Datae Blandenone: A Letter in Search of a Posting Address Jerzy Linderski 15 Using Sundials George W. Houston 16 The Healing Springs of Latium and Etruria John F. Donahue 17 The Shaping Hand of the Environment: Three Phases of Development in Classical Antiquity Michael Maas Geographic Index General Index
£164.80
Brill Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition
Book SynopsisBrill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.Trade Review''This Companion to Greek and Roman Geography should be regarded both as a result and as a testimony of the interest ancient geography has been eliciting in the last 30 years. The three editors are, to a great extent, apart from the already-mentioned Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Serena Bianchetti and Michele Cataudella have authored countless contributions to the research area, ranging from topics as diverse as the voyage and work of Pytheas of Massalia, the sitting and nature of the Pillars of Heracles, the geographic reception of Greek geography among Christian authors, or the relationship between astronomy and cartography, inter alia. Moreover, under their guidance, the book brings together many of the most relevant authorities in recent scholarship on ancient geographic literature and thought. (...) The contributors consistently attain the highest level of complication. All this makes the book an interesting piece of research for being an excellent and useful instrument for scholars from other areas of knowledge, interested in the geographic ideas of the Greeks and Romans.'' Irene Pajón Leyra, Exemplaria Classica 2017.21 ''Insgesamt gelingt es den Herausgebern mit diesem sorgfältig erarbeiteten Band, speziellere Einzelthemen mit eher überblicksartig angelegten Kapiteln sowie Beiträgen zu einschlägigen antiken Autoren instruktiv miteinander zu verbinden. Der Leser erhält nicht nur einen anregenden Einblick in die vielschichtigen Modelle geographischen Denkens sowie in die hiermit verbundenen aktuellen Forschungstrends; er kann auch entscheidende Wende- und Knotenpunkte der Entwicklung (in ihrem historischen Kontext) nachvollziehen, aus denen sich neue Impulse und grundlegende Veränderungen (die Vf. sprechen m.E. etwas zu häufig von „revolution“) ergaben.'' Raimund Schulz, Historische Zeitschrift 2018.306
£193.60
Brill Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne: Texte arabe publié pour la première fois d'après les manuscrits de Paris et d'Oxford avec une traduction, des notes et un glossaire par R. Dozy et M.J. de Goeje
Book SynopsisDescription de l’Afrique et de l’Espagne offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī (d. c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī’ khtirāq al-āfāq. Originally published by Brill in 1866, this edition of the Arabic text concerning Africa and the Iberian Peninsula by R. Dozy and M.J. de Goeje was based on the Paris and Oxford manuscripts. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.
£49.40
Brill La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale aux époques hellénistique et romaine: Géographie historique et sociologie culturelle
Book SynopsisLa Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale deals with the history, the historical geography and the cultural sociology of Phrygia Paroreios and Northern Pisidia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale traite de l’Histoire, de la géographie historique et de la sociologie culturelle de la Phrygie Parorée et du Nord de la Pisidie aux époques hellénistique et romaine (IVe s. av. J.-C.-IVe s. ap. J.-C.).
£146.40
Brill Cities of Medieval Iran
Book SynopsisCities of Medieval Iran brings together studies in urban geography, archaeology, and history of medieval Iranian cities, spanning the Islamic period until ca. 1500, but also the pre-Islamic situation. The cities and their inhabitants take centre stage, they are not just the places where something else happened. Urban actors are given priority over external factors. The contributions take a long-term perspective and thus take the interaction between urban centres and their hinterland into account. Many contributions come from history or archaeology, but new disciplines are also methodologically integrated into the study of medieval cities, such as the arts of the book, lexicography, geomorphology, and digital instruments. Contributors include Denise Aigle, Mehrdad Amanat, Jean Aubin, Richard W. Bulliet, Jamsheed K. Choksy, David Durand-Guédy, Etienne de la Vaissière, Majid Montazer Mahdi, Roy P. Mottahedeh, Jürgen Paul, Rocco Rante, Sarah Savant, Ali Shojai Esfahani, Donald Whitcomb and Daniel Zakrzewski.Table of ContentsPreface David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh and Jürgen Paul Cities in Medieval Iran: a Review of Recent Publications Jürgen Paul Jean Aubin’s Article “Elements for the Study of Urban Agglomerations in Medieval Iran” in Context Translation and Introduction by Jürgen Paul Iranian Cities: Settlements and Water Management from Antiquity to the Islamic Period Rocco Rante “From Shahristān to Medina” Revisited Donald Whitcomb Why Nishapur? Richard W. Bulliet Inherited Landscapes in Muslim Bactra Etienne de la Vaissière Among Saints and Poets: The Spiritual Topography of Medieval Shiraz Denise Aigle The Fortified Landscape of Isfahan Ali Shojaee Esfahani Yazd: a “Good and Noble City” and an “Abode of Worship” Jamsheed K. Choksy Isfahan during the Turko-Mongol Period (11th-15th Centuries) David Durand-Guédy Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol Invasion Jürgen Paul Local Elites and Dynastic Succession: Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol Rule (Sixth/Twelfth to Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) Daniel Zakrzewski Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture Mehrdad Amanat and Roy P. Mottahedeh The History of Iranian Cities through their Books: What Ms. Köprülü 01589 Tells Us about 8th/14th Century Shiraz Sarah Bowen Savant and Majid Montazer Mahdi Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside Roy P. Mottahedeh Index of Persons and Groups Index of Places
£124.80
Brill Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms
Book SynopsisIn Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms (10th century C.E.), the world map and twenty regional maps complement the text to a reference book of the territories under Muslim rule. Rather than shaping the Islamicate world according to political or religious concerns, al-Iṣṭakhrī chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī’s strategy seems to have paid off. By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.Trade Review"Par une analyse essentiellement codicologique des manuscrits, N. D. propose un nouvel éclairage sur la postérité d’une œuvre géographique qui met l’accent sur la continuité culturelle d’un monde islamique fragmenté, audelà des bouleversements politiques et dynastique...Nadja Danilenko nous propose ainsi une plongée passionnante dans l’histoire des manuscrits islamiques en arabe, persan et turc du Livre des Routes et des Royaumes. L’attention portée au texte et aux cartes, mais aussi à la matérialité desmanuscrits (reliure, marques de possession, sceaux, notes marginales), en fait un bel exemple d’étude codicologique menée sur plus de mille ans d’histoire." - Emmanuelle Vagnon-Chureau CNRS - LaMOP (UMR 8589, Université de Paris I), in: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques No 36 (2022)
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Brill Imperial Borderlands: Maps and Territory-Building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885-1914)
Book SynopsisThis book presents a connected history of South-East Asian borderlands, drawing on late nineteenth-century British and French geographical policies and practice. It focuses on the ‘scramble’ in Asia, when, in 1885, the British Raj incorporated Upper Burma and the French created a Protectorate in Annam-Tonkin, the Northern part of present-day Vietnam. Fought over by the imperial states and neighbouring nations, the frontier zones were fashioned and represented not only by the two European powers, but also by the Chinese Empire, the Kingdom of Siam, and the local populations. The counterpoint between the discourses produced and the cartographical practices on the ground, in the longue durée, reveals the interacting processes of territory-building in all their unpredictability. This book is the updated version of the author’s Aux confins des empires. Cartes et constructions territoriales dans le nord de la péninsule indochinoise (1885–1914) (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2018). It is translated by Saskia Brown, an experienced academic translator from French in the humanities and social sciences.Trade ReviewReviews of the French edition “In this beautifully produced book, which contains a separate section with fine reproductions of the main maps, Marie de Rugy has exposed the complexity of colonial cartography, with all its technical and human challenges, in a particularly critical way, thereby demonstrating the relevance of a comparative approach. Her research takes a fresh look at questions about centrality and periphery in cartographic matters.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, no.50, 2019, 184-186. “This enterprise was anything but easy (…) Marie de Rugy’s book is not only an excellent monograph on cartography in Asia at the end of the 19th century. It is also an inspiring reflection on the nature of the conquest and the transformation of imperial margins by European empires.” L’Histoire, no.458, April 2019. “This book delves into several colonial regimes and (…) offers a nuanced analysis of the interactions between colonisers and colonised peoples. Here lies its success.” Liens socios “By presenting a comparative approach, adopting a large questioning and delving into a huge variety of sources, the author offers a reference work.” La letttre de l’Afrase, no.96 “Overall, it is a very original book, especially chapter 6 where the author analyses indigenous maps and immerse readers in the heart of the map production process” Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, no.58, 2019, 290-292. “Another asset of this research is the constant attention given to the interaction between colonial cartographers and the local inhabitants in the gathering of general and specific information about the annexed territories, the collection of topographical data, and the eventual production of new maps. (…) she successfully avoids the pitfall of binary thinking in which European and native views of space are diametrically opposed.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, no.50, 2019, 184-186. “Marie de Rugy’s book distinguishes itself by its analysis of the way Europeans related to colonised peoples and knowledge.” IRSEM - Institute for Strategic Research (Newsletter Oct 2018) “A strong point is the methodological choice to “cross-examine” imperial systems (“croiser les différents systèmes impériaux”), that is, to systematically and critically conduct a comparative study of the British and French colonial worlds, with a focus on a wide range of dynamics, in particular the circulation of knowledge and practices.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, no.50, 2019, 184-186. “Intensive and critical research has produced a particularly solid study, which moreover offers a great deal of inspiration for similar research about other colonial settings.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, no.50, 2019, 184-186. “Aux confins des empires gives a new perspective to borderland studies in Southeast Asia.” IRSEM - Institute for Strategic Research (Newsletter Oct 2018) “The book allows readers to get to the very root of the current hierarchy between margins and centres in Burma, Laos and Vietnam.” IRSEM - Institute for Strategic Research (Newsletter Oct 2018)Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Figures Acronyms and Transcription Conventions Introduction 1 A History of Maps and Territories 2 Confines, Margins, Frontiers: Space as an Object 3 Connecting Empires 1 Connected Histories of Exploration 1 A Well-Stocked Colonial Library with a Long History 2 Geographies of Exploration and Travel Narratives before 1885 3 Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building after 1885 2 Colonial Geographical Departments and Large-Scale Map-Making Programmes 1 The Creation of Colonial Geographical Departments 2 Systematic Mapping of the Whole Territory: A Qualitative Advance? 3 Meeting the Challenge of Limited Staff, Budgets and Material 3 Geographical Institutions: Collaboration, Competition, and Confrontation 1 Rivalry and Cooperation between Map-Makers 2 The Circulation and Uses of Maps 4 Triangulation “from the Mountains to the Sea 1 Tough Working Conditions and a Dangerous Terrain 2 Topographers and Geodetic Surveyors in Action: Adapting Standard Practice 3 Human Settlements and Dwellings: A Map-Maker’s Headache 5 Consulting the Local Population 1 The Role of Intelligence: Local Information Sources during the Conquest 2 Place Names, the Impossible Task 6 Using Asian Maps: Borrowings and Reworkings 1 Checking Historical Borders 7 Colonial Roads and Territorial Reconfigurations 1 Travelling across the Territory 2 The Margins Reconfigured by Roads 8 Locating, Demarcating, and Crossing the Border 1 Theoretical Variations 2 Boundary Marking in Practice 3 Border Controls and Infringements 9 Logics of Rule and Territorial Anomalies 1 The Specific Status of the Frontier Provinces 2 Unstable Territorial Divisions Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China
Book SynopsisThis book centers on the history of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a hydraulic frontier where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain had become a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through in-depth historical analysis, this book shows how water politics, cultural practice, and ecology interplayed and transformed the landscape and waterscape of the plain from a long-term perspective. By touching on topics such as religious practice, ethnic tensions and local militarization, the author reveals a plain forever caught between land and water, and nature and culture.Trade Review"As a historial monograph Yangzi Waters is firmly based on a combination of clearly explained theory and well-picked, original material from local sources. This interesting study should not only be read by China specialists but should also appeal to historians interested in a comparative approach of water management within a global setting." -Leonard Blussé, Leiden University, International Journal of Maritime History, 35(1)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction Water, Society and Politics 1 Theorizing Water and Politics 2 Revisiting the Relationship between Water and Society 3 The Yuan 4 What Are Yuan? 5 A Long-term View of the Yuan 6 The Jianghan Plain 1 Water-based Disasters and a Cultured Nature 1 The Amphibious Nature of the Jianghan Plain 1.1 A Flood-prone Environment 1.2 Wet-rice Cultivation and Its Significance 1.3 Amphibious Living 2 Networks, Lineages, and the Creation of Yuan 3 Temple-Yuan Relations: Seeing a Cultured Nature 4 Conclusion 2 Disordering Nature Wetlands and Empire Reconstruction (1600s–Early 1700s) 1 The Early History of the Wetlands in the Jianghan Plain 2 Crisis and Restoration 3 Migration and Opening the Plain 4 Amphibious Living: Fluidity of the Jianghan Lifestyle 5 Complexities in Administration 6 The Early Qing State and Its Laissez-faire Policy in Central China 7 Hydraulic Communities: Official and People’s Yuan 8 Enforcement on Collaboration: The Formation of Yuan Zones 9 Customs in Common: Various Solutions for Collaborations 10 Turn Sea to Land: Population Growth and Dike Proliferation 11 Conclusion 3 The Retreat of the Horse The Manchus, Pasturelands, and Water Management on the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s–mid-1800s) 1 Manchus and Horses 2 The Jingzhou Garrison 3 Population Growth and Land Reclamation in the Eighteenth-Century Jianghan Plain 4 The Debate over Land versus Water 5 The Dilemma for Statecraft Officials 6 The Manchus and the Local Ecology of Central China 7 Efforts to Reinforce Manchu Cultural Identity 8 The Retreat of Horses in the Jianghan Plain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 9 Conclusion 4 Militarizing Water Forts, Polders, and Landscape in an Era of Crisis (1796–1860s) 1 The Rebels and the Jianghan Plain 2 Jianbi Qingye: The Qing State’s Counterinsurgency Agenda 3 Fort Building in the Hubei Highlands 4 Local Militarization and the Lowland Communities 5 Yuan and Tuanlian: Qianjiang County as a Case Study 6 Disruptions in the Hydraulic System with Local Militarization 7 The Rural Famine in the Jianghan Plain from the Late 1850s to the 1860s 8 Conclusion 5 Coping with Environmental Crisis in the Post-Taiping Era 1 Post-Taiping Social Distress and Environmental Crisis 2 Managing the Waters 2.1 Flood Control: Restoring, Diking, or Diverting 2.2 Sedimentation: Ban the Reclamation on Mountains 2.3 Sacrificing the South for the North 3 The Changing Nature of Conflicts over Water 3.1 First, Greater Frequency and on a Larger Scale 3.2 Second, Diversifying Stakeholders 3.3 Third, a “Plebeian Culture” in Popular Action 3.4 Case Study: The Conflicts over the Big and Small Zekou Outlets from the 1840s to the 1910s 4 Changes in Hydrotopography of the Jianghan Plain 5 Conclusion 6 Centering the Plain 1 The Jinshui Reclamation Project 2 The Social, Economic, and Hydraulic Conditions of the Plain 3 Reorganizing the Yuan System in the Early Republic 4 The Nationalist Government’s Scheme of Unifying Watersheds 5 A Divided Central Yangzi Watershed 6 Hydropower: Centering the Yangzi 7 Conclusion Conclusion 1 An Autonomous Water Regime 2 An Amphibious Water Regime 3 The Role of the State 4 Environmental Changes in the Longue Durée 4.1 Hydrogeographic Changes 4.2 Loss of Biodiversity 5 Hopes and Challenges in the Jianghan Plain Appendix: Glossary of Chinese Measurement Terms Works Cited Index
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Brill Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms
Book SynopsisIn Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms (10th century C.E.), the world map and twenty regional maps complement the text to a reference book of the territories under Muslim rule. Rather than shaping the Islamicate world according to political or religious concerns, al-Iṣṭakhrī chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī’s strategy seems to have paid off. By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.Trade Review"Par une analyse essentiellement codicologique des manuscrits, N. D. propose un nouvel éclairage sur la postérité d’une œuvre géographique qui met l’accent sur la continuité culturelle d’un monde islamique fragmenté, audelà des bouleversements politiques et dynastique...Nadja Danilenko nous propose ainsi une plongée passionnante dans l’histoire des manuscrits islamiques en arabe, persan et turc du Livre des Routes et des Royaumes. L’attention portée au texte et aux cartes, mais aussi à la matérialité desmanuscrits (reliure, marques de possession, sceaux, notes marginales), en fait un bel exemple d’étude codicologique menée sur plus de mille ans d’histoire." - Emmanuelle Vagnon-Chureau CNRS - LaMOP (UMR 8589, Université de Paris I), in: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques No 36 (2022)
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Brill Histoires de la Terre: Earth Sciences and French Culture 1740-1940
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon’s seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important French philosophers, novelists, political theorists, historians and popularizers of science of the time. This book charts the original and influential ways in which French writers and thinkers, such as Buffon, d’Holbach, Balzac, Sand, Verne, Gide and Malraux, exploited the earth sciences for very different ends. This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of French literature in the modern period, cultural historians of modern France, scholars of European studies, of French political history, of the History of Ideas or the History of Science as well as researchers in landscape and physical geography.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgements Louise LYLE and David MCCALLAM: Introduction Section 1: The Enlightenment Benoît DE BAERE: Natural Catastrophe in Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle: Earth Science, Aesthetics, Anthropology Grégory QUENET: When Geology Encounters a Real Catastrophe: From Theoretical Earthquakes to the Lisbon Disaster Rebecca FORD: Images of the Earth, Images of Man: The Mineralogical Plates of the Encyclopédie Ian D. ROTHERHAM and David MCCALLAM: Peat Bogs, Marshes and Fen as Disputed Landscapes in Late Eighteenth-Century France and England Section 2: Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century Greg KERR: “Nous avons enlacé le globe de nos réseaux…”: Spatial Structure in Saint-Simonian Poetics Ceri CROSSLEY: Pierre Leroux and the Circulus: Soil, Socialism and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century France Scott SPRENGER: Mind as Ruin: Balzac’s “Sarrasine” and the Archaeology of Self Claire LE GUILLOU: Archaeology – A Passion of George Sand Section 3: Late Nineteenth Century Tim UNWIN: Jules Verne and the Discovery of the Natural World Anca MITROI: Jules Verne’s Transylvania: Cartographic Omissions Kiera VACLAVIK: Undermining Body and Mind? The Impact of the Underground in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature Ben FISHER: Alfred Jarry’s Neo-Science: Liquidizing Paris and Debunking Verne Section 4: Early Twentieth Century Louise LYLE: Reading Environmental Apocalypse in J.-H. Rosny Aîné’s Terrestrial Texts David H. WALKER : André Gide, Eugène Rouart and le retour à la terre Martin HURCOMBE: Down to Earth: André Malraux’s Political Itinerary and the Natural World Index of Names
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