Historisk geografi

In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon …

To join a conversation, one must know what is being said. Writing Early America is a field report on the current state of the historiography on the colonial era-from the time of …

In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766-1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the …

One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia's origins in over a century-and one that corrects previous histories' tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state's …

Herodotus, a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BCE, wrote An Account of Egypt. The book is a detailed account of Herodotus's travels to Egypt, where he spent several …

From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo's fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera's Parisian lair to scenes from Grand Theft Auto in LA, this is an amazing atlas of …

One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of …

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as …

Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during …

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is …