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Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Innes M. Keighren
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Revising historical geography reviews Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Emily Hayes, Roberto Chauca Tapia
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Securing the boundaries of wilderness in northern Alaska, 1892–1950 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jonathan Luedee
This paper examines the socio-ecological implications of reindeer-caribou hybridization during the rise and collapse of the reindeer industry in Alaska. Following their introduction in the late nineteenth century, reindeer populations increased dramatically as herds spread throughout the territory. As populations increased, domesticated reindeer often escaped from their herds and ran off with migratory
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Demons, spirits, and haunted landscapes in Palestine Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Amer A. Al-Qobbaj, David J. (Sandy) Marshall, Loay A. Alsaud
In recent decades, a spectral turn has animated geography and related fields like archaeology, memory studies, and landscape studies, examining how places can be haunted by the ghosts of the past, with heavy emphasis on metaphorical specters and spirits. The geography of spirits and other unseen forces presented here takes a less metaphorical approach to haunted landscapes. This paper examines how
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“A new power: Photography in Britain, 1800–1850” 1 February – 7 May 2023 ST Lee Gallery, Bodleian Weston Library, Oxford Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Susan C. Squibb
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The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Brian J. Godfrey
Since 1965, New York City's Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) has listed over 37,900 buildings and sites, overwhelmingly located in 156 historic districts. While official landmark criteria have not changed, designation reports reveal shifting narratives of place and race. I examine historic placemaking in Black-identified districts, focusing on how designation rationales have evolved. Evidence
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Geobiographies of prominent Polish painters: Changing hierarchies of art cities and patterns of artistic migrations from 1760 to 1939 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jarosław Działek
In the field of art studies, there is a growing interest in data-driven approaches to analyse the spatial organisation of art worlds. Biographical databases of notable individuals have been used to uncover the emergence and decline of globally significant art cities, while less attention has been given to peripheral art systems. This paper aims to address this gap by utilising a curated dataset that
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Habitability as a historical category for interpreting the Anthropocene Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Mauricio Onetto Pavez
The article examines the development of a new discourse on habitability in the sixteenth century, which breaks with the ancient notion that distinguished between habitable and uninhabitable spaces according to their climate and location. In it, a new conception of the world as completely habitable and exploitable is articulated, and the European ideal of a temperate climate as a reference to characterize
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Contesting monuments, challenging narratives: Divergent approaches to dealing with the colonial past and its legacies in Lisbon, Portugal Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sofia Lovegrove, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro
Portugal was the longest modern European imperial power, yet the dominant historical narrative is characterised by a celebration of the ‘Discoveries’ and a denial of colonial violence. This is visible in Lisbon's public space, dotted with monuments and statues glorifying the imperial past, while occluding less convenient histories. Especially since 2017, more attention has been given to Portugal's
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Preserving whose city? Memory, place, and identity in Rio de Janeiro, Brian J. Godfrey. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham (2021), 223 pages US$39.00 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ana Gisele Ozaki
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ArchieDaviesA World Without Hunger: Josué de Castro and the History of Geography2022Liverpool University Press, Liverpool272Open access, PDF/EPUB Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Dirceu Marroquim
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Commemorating Picton in Wales and Trinidad: Colonial legacies and the production of memorial publics Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Gareth Hoskins, Leighton James
This article develops a dual analysis of commemoration in Wales and Trinidad that extends outwards from a monument in the Welsh town of Carmarthen to Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, the most senior officer to die at the battle of Waterloo and an aggressive imperialist who has since been accused of committing crimes against humanity in the name of the British Empire. Using torture and public executions
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Memorial as aegis: Colonial sovereignty and the unmaking of the Kanpur Memorial Well Monument Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Swati Chattopadhyay
This article addresses competing visions of sovereignty that underwrite recent debates about monuments. It turns to a well-known monument built to commemorate the loss of British lives in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857–59: the Kanpur (Cawnpore) Memorial Well Monument. The memorial stood over a well in which the bodies of 200 British women and children killed by Indian sepoys lay buried. A large landscaped
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Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A very short introduction, Liba Taub. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2023), 154 + XXII pages, $11.95 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Carlotta Santini
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Moving statues: Monuments to empire from London's Waterloo Place to the Maidan in Calcutta Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Durba Ghosh
From the end of the Napoleonic wars through the First World War, London was made into a historic city that showcased it as the heart of a growing empire. Waves of urban reform produced public spaces, such as Waterloo Place, that were populated with statues of military and imperial heroes involved in Britain's territorial conquests. The result was that London came to be imagined as old, designed in
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Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–1945, Bill Sewell2020University of British Columbia PressVancouver312US$37.95 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Yiming Xu
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Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics, F.P. Cacciafoco and F. Cavallaro. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2023), 297 pages, $ 105.00 hardback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Selim Bozdoğan
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A World Without Hunger: Josué de Castro and the History of Geography, Archie Davies. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool (2022). 256 pp, $49.99 hardback. Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Julian Brigstocke
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Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past, Omer Bartov. Yale University Press, New Haven (2022). 384 pages, US$30.00 hardcover Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Tristan Kenderdine
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Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative. Tings in de House, Shawn-Naphtali Sobers2023LondonRoutledge(2023), 206 pages, $160.00 hardback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Anne J. Kershen
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Codifying clumsiness: Tracing the origins of dyspraxia through a transatlantic constellation of mobility (1866–1948) Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Philip Kirby
Dyspraxia affects up to five percent of the population, but its history and its historical geographies have gone unexplored. This article offers the first historical geography of dyspraxia, conceptualising its emergence in the transatlantic world through a ‘constellation of mobility’. It explores the major episodes in dyspraxia's early history (1866–1948) – from the Victorian science of apraxia in
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Small urban waters and environmental pressure before industrialization: The case of Hungary Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 András Vadas, László Ferenczi
Before the birth of modern infrastructures, towns in Europe kept experiencing difficulties in providing water and a healthy environment for their inhabitants. Freshwater was not only essential for basic hygiene and drinking but water resources, especially urban streams played a key role in local economies. The article addresses the pressure the increasingly diverse utilization of water put on such
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An explosive landscape: Arranging the barnacle goose on the Solway Firth Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Charlotte Wrigley
By the end of the Second World War, the Svalbard barnacle goose population had dwindled to a couple of hundred birds. Flying in from the Arctic to spend the winters on the Solway Firth (the estuary that separates England from Scotland), they were a favourite target of wildfowlers in the area. Since then, a ban on shooting and the Solway goose management scheme that pays farmers to maintain a goose
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From sacred place to outer space: Collective creativity and the iconographies of mid-twentieth century English modernity in Guildford Cathedral's kneelers Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 William Barnes, Claire Dwyer, David Gilbert
Between 1936 and 1969, around 1600 kneelers were produced for the new Anglican cathedral at Guildford in Surrey, southern England. This was a major collective devotional artwork, involving hundreds of embroiderers, mostly local women. The project was a distinctive form of community and collective artwork, that complicates established understandings of embroidery, craftwork, femininity and politics
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Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Briony McDonagh, Edward Brookes, Kate Smith, Hannah Worthen, Tom J. Coulthard, Gill Hughes, Stewart Mottram, Amy Skinner, Jack Chamberlain
The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engaging people in climate narratives. Far less has been said about mobilising arts and creativity to build anticipatory climate action. Nor have archival material
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African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment, Rebekah Mitsein, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville (2022), p. 294 pages, US$ 105 cloth Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Johanna Skurnik
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Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal ‘Asqalan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Roy Marom, Itamar Taxel
This paper deals with the dialectics of settlement continuity and change in Palestine's southern coastal plain during the Mamluk and Early Ottoman periods (1270–1750 CE). Using Ḥamāma, an Arab village in Majdal ‘Asqalān's hinterland as a test-case, the paper introduces a new method of establishing settlement continuity — a major challenge in the study of the historical geography of late medieval and
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The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north: Cold War vernacular collecting and mining uranium, and its legacies Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Nadezhda Mamontova
This paper explores the production of vernacular geological knowledge about uranium during the Cold War. In particular, it investigates uranium gathering practices in Siberia as a form of geopower exercised where Soviet citizens were encouraged to participate in geological exploration of the ‘bowels of the Earth’ for national benefits. This paper further discusses a novel theorization of the early
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The colonizers, the developmental state, and uneven geography of development: Reclamation of South Korea's tidal flats, 1900s-1980s Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Young Rae Choi
South Korea's tidal flats, called getbol, are muddy and grayish coastal wetlands under the tidal influence that constitute the predominant landform of South Korea's west and southwest coasts. Today, getbol is appreciated for its biological and geological diversity, for which it recently earned UNESCO's World Heritage status. Yet, throughout the 20th century, more than 50% of getbol areas were lost
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Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Katrina Navickas
This article examines the women's protest camps at RAF Greenham Common cruise missile base, Berkshire, England, between 1981 and 1990. Using new evidence from government correspondence in the Home Office archives, it argues that the legal status of the common and its history were key determinants of how the protest camps were policed and repeatedly evicted. The processes of eviction were determined
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Gandhi falling … and rising Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Rahul Rao
In recent years, statues of Gandhi have been attacked by a variety of radically incommensurable movements. Subaltern social movements struggling to dismantle the legacies of colonialism, slavery and apartheid have attacked Gandhi on the grounds of his alleged racism, casteism, misogyny and because he functions as a cipher for the imperialism of the contemporary Indian state and the racism of Indian
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Editorial board Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-07-28
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The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-07-18
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Anticipatory historical geographies of violence: Imagining, mapping, and integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state, 1866–1939 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-07-10
Any understanding of the transformation from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state rule must consider the complex interplay between knowledge production, sovereignty, and power, as well as the historical geographies that shape them. As such, this article focuses on Middle Eastern modern-state formation through the case of Dersim, a region in contemporary Turkey's Eastern Anatolia, in the late
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Traffic logic, state strategies and free speech in an urban park: The Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme, London, 1955–1962 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-07-10
‘Traffic logic’ draws attention to how civil rights in public space, such as free speech, are often compromised by officials in favour of expanding bureaucratic traffic codes, designs and plans. However, internal disputes among state departments about nascent traffic logic schemes will sometimes be strategically employed by social movements to campaign for civil liberties and rights in public space
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Animating historical resource geographies: Encountering the guitar's North American material traces Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Chris Gibson, Andrew Warren
This article seeks to animate historical resource geographies by uncovering unforeseen material lineages and foregrounding the lived experiences of otherwise unremembered resource workers. We revisit research on the historical resource geographies of the guitar, adapting what McGeachan (2018) calls ‘the trace’ to connect material archival fragments with visceral, ethnographic encounters in multiple
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Timber, money, and shelter: The promotion of private tree planting in New Zealand during the 1920s Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Anton Sveding
This article examines the promotion of private tree planting, in particular by farmers, by the New Zealand State Forest Service (SFS) as a solution to a timber shortage in the 1920s. While previous research has detailed the SFS’s efforts to ensure a stable supply of timber by placing New Zealand’s native forests under a system of sustained yield management and through the establishment of exotic plantations
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Cartographic reinterpretation of Central and Eastern Europe in the 16th century Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Karol Łopatecki
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The spatial logic of health: Managing waste, water and infrastructure in later medieval Bologna Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Taylor Zaneri
Medieval Bologna was a vibrant and dynamic city with hundreds of artisans, craftsmen, students, government officials (and other professionals), as well as animals, all sharing the same streets, neighborhoods, and waterways. As this paper will show, medieval officials were highly concerned with keeping their city and its environs, safe and healthy, and devoted significant amounts of time and resources
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Consuming landscapes: What we see when we drive and why it matters, Thomas Zeller, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2022), p. 264, US$55.00 hardcover Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Matthew D. Mingus
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Exhibition review: “The Procession” by Hew Locke, Tate Britain, London Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Nader Fekri
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Beneath the Lines: Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century, Jacobo García-Alvarez, Paloma Puente-Lozano (Eds.), Springer, Cham, Switzerland (2022), 172, EUR106.99 ebook Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 David Alejandro Ramírez Palacios
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The symbolic power of the world first circumnavigation: An approach from political communication Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Antonio Baraybar-Fernández, Miguel Baños-González, Rainer Rubira-García
This article aims to approach the consequences, within the scope of soft power in Joseph Nye's terms, undergone by the Hispanic Monarchy due to the World's first circumnavigation, performed by Magalhães and Elcano. To that end, the symbolic power of this journey will be analysed from the communication theory through the application of Burke's dramatic pentad as a contribution to a better understanding
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Picturing ecology: Photography and the birth of a new science, Damian Hughes, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore (2022), 491 pages, 46 colour & 51 b/w illustrations, £24.99 hardback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Siobhan Angus
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Neon: A Light History, Dydia DeLyser, Paul Greenstein, Giant Orange Press, Los Angeles (2021), $25.00. Soft cover Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Tim Edensor
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Placing internationalism: International conferences and the making of the modern world, Stephen Legg, Mike Heffernan, Jake Hodder, Benjamin Thorpe (Eds.) (2022), Bloomsbury, London (UK), 262 p., £ 85.00 hardcover Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Federico Ferretti
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Mapping Mountains, Ernesto Capello, Leiden, Brill (2020), 84 pages, €70.00/US$85.00, paper Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Felix de Montety
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Howardena Pindell's ‘A New Language’ Exhibition, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Lucy Thompson
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Exhibition review: ‘Classroom photographic journeys,’ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, U.K. Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Emily Hayes
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Elizabeth Baigent, André Reyes Novaes (Eds.)Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 40, Bloomsbury Academic Press, London (2022), 205 pages, £117.00 (hardback) Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Patrícia Gomes da Silveira
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Géographie et impérialisme, Fabio Rossinelli, De la Suisse au Congo entre exploration géographique et conquête coloniale, Neuchâtel (2022), p. 748, ISBN: 978-2-88930-401-1 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Eliane Schmid
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Rumors of War: Towards the unsettling of the Confederate monumental landscape Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Noah Randolph
On September 8, 2021, the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia was removed—the final Confederate monument to be toppled on Monument Avenue, the one-and-a-half-mile boulevard dedicated to Confederate memory. Two years prior, Kehinde Wiley unveiled Rumors of War, a 27-foot-tall and 16- foot-wide bronze statue showing a young Black man with dreadlocks atop a horse in a hoodie, ripped jeans, and
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Spatial dimensions of religious practice in multi-confessional Eastern Europe, circa 1760–1820 Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Melchior Jakubowski
The article exemplifies the field of an historical geography of religion, specifically focusing on the spatial aspect of inter-denominational relations. It analyses the impact of routes and distances on religious practice, arguing that space played a pivotal role in administering church services. Three case studies from different regions of Eastern Europe – Bukovina (today divided between Romania and
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An unsettling re-composition: Istanbul's lost Armenian April 11 Memorial Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Ela Gök, Ezgi Tuncer
This research uses 3D drawing techniques to create a re-composition of the lost April 11 Memorial, a contested monument which commemorated the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Istanbul in 1915. We use the only photograph of the monument remaining in the public record as a witness to inform this re-composition and multiply the possibilities of remembering through the medium of drawing. The
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Readers in a Revolution: Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century, David McKitterick, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2022), p. 446, US$39.99 hardcover. Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Dean W. Bond
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Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, Mauro José Caraccioli, University Press of Florida, Gainesville (2021), p. 212, US$28.00 paperback Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Roberto Chauca
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Representing Freetown: Photographs, maps and postcards in the urban cartography of colonial Sierra Leone Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Milo Gough
This article traces the development of the colonial cartography of Freetown, Sierra Leone across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historiography of colonial cartography has centred the surveyor and the map in the capture and control of land. This article, instead, describes colonial cartography in the accretion of a variety of forms of spatial representation created by diverse
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After the fall, where?: Relocating the Colston statue in Bristol, from 2020 to imaginary futures Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Tim Cole
Drawing on analysis of press reporting, museum display and a large-scale survey undertaken in Bristol in the aftermath of the 2020 toppling of the Colston statue, this article examines the shifting meanings given to the statue across a range of material and imagined sites. It works with two ways that history and geography intersect: the history of the sites/aftersites of this statue, and the materiality
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From edenic island to endemic park: A historical political ecology of environmental degradation narratives on Réunion (West Indian Ocean) Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Vincent Banos, Bruno Bouet, Philippe Deuffic
Exploring the premise that environmental injustices date back centuries, this article provides an overview of the long trajectory of degradation narratives on Réunion, from the earliest colonial concerns in the late seventeenth century to the contemporary National Park. Through a historical political ecology approach, we identify distinct phases where degradation narratives became prominent, and sometimes
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Fenced open-fields in mixed-farming systems: spatial organisation and cooperation in southern Sweden during the seventeenth century Journal of Historical Geography (IF 1.031) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Olof Karsvall, Kristofer Jupiter, Anders Wästfelt
The organisation of fields and fences in agriculture that emerged during the Middle Ages and the early modern period was a complex system that combined individual ownership of and communal practices in arable land, meadows and pastures. It was adapted for small and mid-size family-based farming and was a different way to organise agriculture than the medieval estates (demesnes) and the larger coherent