From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways—a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collect...Loe edasi...
In this publication, Peter van Druenen presents an innovative method by which – for the first time – all 226 city maps created by Jacob van Deventer between 1545 and 1572 have been systematically and consistently measured, analysed for quality, and c...Loe edasi...
Mining loomed large in colonial Andean society. In the eighteenth century, projects to reform existing mines and establish new ones were increasingly accompanied and shaped by mapping. Numerous mining maps from the colonial Andes are preserved in ar...Loe edasi...
This book describes the efforts of cartographers to map and chart the Indonesian Archipelago between 1800 and 1962. Preceded by collecting and analysing the available source materials and underlying texts, it aims to present the first comprehensive e...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a lively tour through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their ver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009644136)
Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. These connectivities exhibited markers of glob...Loe edasi...
Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. These connectivities exhibited markers of glob...Loe edasi...
Horrible Histories finally turns its attention to Football. Read all about footballs beginnings in the Middle Ages all the way to the First World War and its famous Christmas day match, plus awful injuries, silly supporters and not forgetting women...Loe edasi...
The best book to have next to your Bible.From the history and design of the temple in Jerusalem to Gods relationship with the universe, youll find it here. The land, culture, battles, feast days, heroes, and villains of...Loe edasi...
From a leading scholar of the ancient world, this stunning illustrated guide to the Roman Empire explores every aspect of its rise to power, its dominion over the world, and its eventual fall At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched...Loe edasi...
A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914 A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753706)
Xu Xiake (1587-1641) is Chinas most famous traveler and travel writer. His extended journeys throughout Ming-dynasty China, undertaken over some three decades, are documented in his diaries, which include first-hand observations that are valuable c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753690)
Experience dramatic mountain vistas and karst caves with Chinas most famous travel writerXu Xiake stands as Chinas most distinguished traveler and travel writer, whose extensive journeys through Ming-dynasty China offer a unique w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781394329144)
A groundbreaking guide to world history through regional geography and interdisciplinary insight World Historical Geography: Regional Trends and Global Themes examines world history through the lens of geography, where landforms,...Loe edasi...
A gripping, often irreverent exploration of the past, present, and future of archaeology in America.Archaeology has long captivated the American public, yet pop culture mythology often obscures the harsh realities, thrilling disc...Loe edasi...
Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book, and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes.This meticulously curated selection of 40 m...Loe edasi...
A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of...Loe edasi...
This Element aims to explore borders in ancient Egypt, both the territorial and ideological boundaries of the state. After examining the applicability of territorial state borders to the ancient world, the boundaries of ancient Egypt will be investi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500128)
This Element aims to explore borders in ancient Egypt, both the territorial and ideological boundaries of the state. After examining the applicability of territorial state borders to the ancient world, the boundaries of ancient Egypt will be investi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865684)
Iowa’s story of change, from removing Indigenous nations and farming its prairies and wetlands to the growth of a lively conservation movement, comes alive in this definitive human and environmental history that shows how the land and its people h...Loe edasi...
Sari: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820374918)
As the first major U.S. urban center located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati depended on the Ohio River for its early development, eventually becoming one of the country’s iconic river cities, with incredible growth during the golden ag...Loe edasi...
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may e...Loe edasi...
Moving beyond the conventional binary logic of state and society, this book reveals how borderlands emerge as both contested and negotiated terrains shaped by historical legacies and contemporary practices co-produced by the state and people....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781685970451)
Description: Historical maps are fascinating but often enigmatic, especially early Native American maps with few easily recognizable features. Indigenous people made numerous maps, but understanding and appreciating these documents requires an inter...Loe edasi...
The main purpose of this book is to implement deep research on the theoretical and practical aspects of Geopolitics, the overview of the role and place of geopolitics in the scientific system, the main geopolitical thoughts and concepts from ancient...Loe edasi...
In the tradition of Hampton Sides and Simon Winchester comes a vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British archeological scholar Mike Pitts—a book that rewrites the popular yet flawed history of Rapa Nui (Easte...Loe edasi...
A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made—and resisted—Russia’s empires. The Oak and the LarchThe Oak and the Larch...Loe edasi...
First published in 1934, Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography is a critical commentary on a chronologically arranged bibliography of nearly two thousand contemporary printed and manuscript works. Poets, preachers and phi...Loe edasi...
In this publication, Peter van Druenen presents an innovative method by which – for the first time – all 226 city maps created by Jacob van Deventer between 1545 and 1572 have been systematically and consistently measured, analysed for quality, and c...Loe edasi...
Mining loomed large in colonial Andean society. In the eighteenth century, projects to reform existing mines and establish new ones were increasingly accompanied and shaped by mapping. Numerous mining maps from the colonial Andes are preserved in ar...Loe edasi...
This book describes the efforts of cartographers to map and chart the Indonesian Archipelago between 1800 and 1962. Preceded by collecting and analysing the available source materials and underlying texts, it aims to present the first comprehensive e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Calendar, Kirjastus: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806941032)
This calendar curates 12 amazing photographs from the collections of The Polar Museum, documenting the expeditions of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9798893850581)
A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, New York in the years after th...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a lively tour through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their ver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009644136)
Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. These connectivities exhibited markers of glob...Loe edasi...
Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. These connectivities exhibited markers of glob...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9781779401755)
A story of exploration, family ties, and how the territorial interests of a large corporation enabled scientific study of the natural world, Mapmaker is the first biography of Philip Turnor, the surveyor who traversed and mapped vast areas of northe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967996)
Mapping Medical Modernity explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo, a city undergoing rapid transformation from the seat of power of the Tokugawa shoguns of the Edo period...Loe edasi...
Horrible Histories finally turns its attention to Football. Read all about footballs beginnings in the Middle Ages all the way to the First World War and its famous Christmas day match, plus awful injuries, silly supporters and not forgetting women...Loe edasi...
Discover the extraordinary story of the United States of America from its fight for independence to its 250th anniversary. This captivating and richly illustrated book takes you on a year-by-year journey through US history, starting with...Loe edasi...
The best book to have next to your Bible.From the history and design of the temple in Jerusalem to Gods relationship with the universe, youll find it here. The land, culture, battles, feast days, heroes, and villains of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271100418)
For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later Mexico City, but their responses were about more than just engineering. What might seem like straightforward hydraulic projects emerge, u...Loe edasi...
From a leading scholar of the ancient world, this stunning illustrated guide to the Roman Empire explores every aspect of its rise to power, its dominion over the world, and its eventual fall At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched...Loe edasi...
A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914 A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695396)
When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natura...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695402)
When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natura...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469693347)
The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth century-has often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz...Loe edasi...
