The story of how the map of New Zealand emergedis a fascinating one. The first full map of the islands was published in Londonin 1773, which might seem the natural starting point, but over the preceding150 years, fragments of charts and intelligence about New Zealand ricochetedaround various parts of the world.  In ADraught of the… Read More Paul Moon (2023): A Draught of the South Land: Mapping New Zealand from Tasman to Cook. Lutterworth Press: Cambridge.

How did a generation of academic geographers engage with constitutional decolonisation during the end of the British empire in Africa? In Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1990, Ruth Craggs and Hannah Neate explore how the teaching, research, administration and activism of geographers in Africa shaped the decolonisation… Read More Ruth Craggs, Hannah Neate (2023): Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester.

Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the… Read More Catherine Horel (2023): Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire. Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters. CEU Press: Budapest, Vienna, New York.

In achtzehn exemplarischen Inselerkundungen – von der faktualen Isla Juan Fernandez über das historische Formosa und das berühmte Pitcairn bis zur fiktionalen Pip‘s Island – erzählen Roland Borgards, Lena Kugler und Mira Shah eine Geschichte des pazifischen Inselmeers. Zwei Themenbereiche tauchen auf diesen Pazifischen Passagen immer wieder auf: Zum einen liefern die Autor:innen Fragmente der… Read More Roland Borgards, Lena Kugler und Mira Shah (2023): Pazifische Passagen. Ein Insularium des Großen Ozeans. Wallstein: Göttingen.

The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region’s social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia,… Read More Luregn Lenggenhager, Martha Akawa, Giorgio Miescher, Romie Nghitevelekwa, Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule (eds.) (2023): The Lower !Garib – Orange River. Pasts and Presents of a Southern African Border Region. transcript: Bielefeld

This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research. It consists of a coherent set of chapters that allow readers to study the spatial histories of cities, infrastructure, landscapes, and more across Europe. Each chapter is accompanied by Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) including GIS data, guides and complementary material in .pdf format,… Read More Jordi Martí-Henneberg (2023): Creative Ways to apply Historical GIS. Promoting Research and Teaching about Europe Creative Ways to apply Historical GIS: Promoting Research and Teaching about Europe. Springer: Cham.

This open access book explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period up to World War 1, focusing chiefly on the 18th and 19th centuries. Taking a multidisciplinary approach and making extensive use of the archival record, this is the first detailed, historical account of the relationship… Read More Isabella Alexander (2023): Copyright and Cartography. History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge. Bloomsbury: London and New York.

Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world’s only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began after his attempt to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday. Failing to find anything… Read More Peter Bellerby (2023): The Globemakers. The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft. Bloomsbury: London and New York.