Routledge Research in Historical Geography
Christopher Columbus and the Genesis of New World Colonialism, 1493–96: An Historical Geography of his Second Voyage
1st Edition
By Al M. Rocca
September 03, 2025
This book explores the role of geography’s five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombus’s second voyage. It explores the impacting events that led to deteriorating relations between Columbus, the Spanish settlers (adventurers), and the...
Dissertating Geography: An Inquiry into the Making of Student Geographical Knowledge, 1950-2020
1st Edition
By Mette Bruinsma
January 30, 2025
This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective. Disciplinary histories often emphasise the pronouncements of established academics, yet student-geographers make up the majority of the overall ‘geographical community’ at any one time. Exploring these efforts of...
Urban Planning During Socialism: Views from the Periphery
1st Edition
Edited
By Jasna Mariotti, Kadri Leetmaa
January 30, 2025
Urban Planning During Socialism delves into the evolution of cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century, summarizing the urban and architectural studies that trace their transformations. The book focuses primarily on the periphery of the socialist world, both spatially and in ...
Empire, Gender, and Bio-geography: Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe and Colonial Burma
1st Edition
By Nuala C Johnson
November 28, 2024
This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the work of the plant collector, botanical illustrator, and naturalist, Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe, this book...
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire
1st Edition
By Scott Kirsch
August 26, 2024
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of U.S. colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space. From concrete interventions in infrastructure, urban planning, and ...
A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean
1st Edition
By Al M. Rocca
May 02, 2024
This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day-by-day account of the explorer’s travels and activities, richly illustrated with thematic maps. This work expands our understanding of Columbus’s ...
Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography: Travels, Networks, Translations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferenc Gyuris, Boris Michel, Katharina Paulus
January 29, 2024
This book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography. It offers perspectives from a wide range of contexts and national traditions that decenter the Anglo-centric discussions. The mid-20th-century quantitative revolution is frequently regarded as a decisive ...
Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Brook, Martin Dodge, Jonathan Hogg
May 31, 2023
This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US ...
Earth, Cosmos and Culture: Geographies of Outer Space in Britain, 1900–2020
1st Edition
By Oliver Tristan Dunnett
May 31, 2023
This book traces the development of diverse British cultures of outer space, utilizing key geographical concepts such as landscape, place, and national identity. It examines the early visionary ideas of writers H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon, the ambitious British space programme of the 1960s, and...
Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Alida Clemente, Dag Lindström, Jon Stobart
May 31, 2023
This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It ...
Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon: Colonialism and the Negotiation of Bureaucratic Boundaries
1st Edition
By James S. Duncan
May 06, 2022
This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, ...
Commemorative Spaces of the First World War: Historical Geographies at the Centenary
1st Edition
Edited
By James Wallis, David C. Harvey
March 05, 2019
This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical and cultural geography. Reflecting the centennial interest in the conflict, the collection explores the relationships between warfare and...