This book provides readers with a thorough grounding in a sub-discipline that revisits the past through a geographical lens. It encourages the reader to pursue researching the past in a usable manner, reflecting on the role of the past in the presen...Loe edasi...
First published in 1925, Historical Geography of England and Wales gives a picturesque account of what has come to be recognized as the Historical Geography of Britain south of the Tweed. This book will be a valuable resource for students and resear...Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of geographys five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombuss second voyage....Loe edasi...
The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish cultur...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....Loe edasi...
First published in 1930, Tudor Geography discusses the men and the geographical concepts that enabled world-famous voyages by the British with the aim of circumventing Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of the direct routes to the Spice Islands....Loe edasi...
This new edition now includes an additional 37 of Martin Gilberts maps, across the whole period of the war, originally published across a range of publications, now gathered in this one volume for the first time...Loe edasi...
This new edition now includes an additional 30 of Martin Gilberts maps, with many additional camp and ghetto maps, further illustrating the layout and organization of some of the most significant places of the Holocaust which will be especially usef...Loe edasi...
This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries, and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, not treated as mere barriers, but also pla...Loe edasi...
This book compares present day networks of Central and Inner Asia with the similar connections that existed at the time of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century and its successor states. The book shows the Mongol Empire anticipated many networ...Loe edasi...
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985, this atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War, including the campaigns of Montrose, the battle of Edgehill and Langport....Loe edasi...
First published 2000, this text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the recognition of the need to write critical histories of geographical thought and, particularly, the relationship between m...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarcera...Loe edasi...
Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street...Loe edasi...
This collection of studies, the eighth by David Jacoby, covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility across the Mediterranean - from the eleventh century to the fifteenth - illustrated by a growing number of Westerners engaging in pilgri...Loe edasi...
Exploring the geographies of literary practice from 1860 to 1920, this book takes as its focus the work, or craft, of authorship, exploring novels not as objects awaiting interpretation, but as spatial processes of making meaning. ...Loe edasi...
The present volume engages with the oceanic turn in different fields of knowledge to project the Indian Ocean as the new frontier of research across various disciplines. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India...Loe edasi...
This book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over t...Loe edasi...
