geography

Sigurd Bergmann, Carson Fellow from December 2011 until February 2012, talks about his research concerning religious worldviews and the perception of the environment.

Brian Donahue offers an innovative, accessible, and authoritative history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts.

Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines.

Prominent Austrian and German scholars combine science and humanities in interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment.

This book examines the various practices—social, discursive, and political—through which Canada’s West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle.

Henry Clifford Darby (Sir Clifford in his later years) was—and arguably remains—Britain’s most well known historical geographer. The Relations of History and Geography consists of a dozen chapters, arranged as three sets of four essays that focus on England, France, and America. At the heart of this book lies a window onto Darby’s views of historical geography, as a field of inquiry, in the three realms over which he cast his gaze.

A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.

An insight into the historic landscape of Württemberg.

In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.

An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.