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Explorations in Historical Geography
The debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography has often focused upon the progress to be made in the discipline through an adaptation to new problems, new …
English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century
To contemporaries the nineteenth century was ‘the age of great cities’. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as ‘urban’. In the first …
Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its vibrant history …
Geography and History
This volume is an examination of the relations between geography and history.
The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century
Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of England is subject …
Period and Place
In the years before the publication of this book, there had been a marked interest in the methodology of historical geography as well as in its underlying philosophies and …
Poverty, Ethnicity and the American City, 1840–1925
The debate about the relationships among poverty, minorities and the inner city is rooted in evaluations of policies initiated decades ago but the issues of this debate have a much …
Society in Time and Space
Society in Time and Space is an important book which offers a geographical perspective on societal change, and sets out to show how understanding the geography of such change …
Imperial Visions
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Russian empire made a dramatic advance on the Pacific by annexing the vast regions of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. Although this remote …
White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition
David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780–1833), …
Peasantry to Capitalism
How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, and the relationships …
Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance
Nuala C. Johnson explores the complex relationship between social memory and space in the representation of war in Ireland. The Irish experience of the Great War, and its …