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 geography students over the past 70 years places the known history of the discipline in a… Read More Mette Bruinsma (2023): Dissertating Geography: An Inquiry into the Making of Student Geographical Knowledge, 1950-2020. Routledge: London and New York.

Geogeschichte ist eine Expedition voller Überraschungen, bei der Grataloup einer einzigen Frage auf der Spur ist: Welchen Einfluss hat die Geografie auf den Verlauf der Weltgeschichte? Geologie, Anthropologie, Klimatologie, Demografie, Genetik, Epidemiologie und Ökonomie – sie alle werden in diesem Buch mobilisiert, um die Weltgeschichte von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart auf eine andere… Read More Grataloup, Christian (2025): Geogeschichte. Die Macht der Geografie in der Weltgeschichte. C.H. Beck: München.

Historical Geographies: The Basics provides readers with a thorough grounding in a sub-discipline that revisits the past through a geographical lens. It encourages the reader to pursue researching the past in a usable manner, reflecting on the role of the past in the present and how it might inform geographical thinking. Across seven chapters, the… Read More Paul Griffin and Cheryl McGeachan (2025): Historical Geographies: The Basics. Routledge: London and New York

Within the Habsburg Empire of the late nineteenth century, nature became a central focus of political, economic, and scientific attention. A source of valuable natural resources and a platform for consolidating wider, territorial rule, its management and control was subsumed into a broader system of imperial governance. In this exacting analysis of the correlation between… Read More Jawad Daheur and Iva Lučić (eds.) (2025): Habsburg Natures Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918. Berghahn: New York and Oxford.

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time – combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences. Focusing on the practices, actors, and socio-cultural contexts that have shaped knowledge production,… Read More Norman Henniges, Johannes Mattes, Marianne Klemun (eds.) (2026): Earth–Knowledge. History of Science as Histories of Knowledge? Routledge: London and New York.

n the nineteenth century, changes to the environment, driven by ideology, natural forces, and burgeoning fossil fuel power, shifted the course of the Habsburg Empire. Along the Danube—Europe’s second longest river—hydraulic engineering projects ranging from bridges to embankments and shipping hubs affected the river’s dynamics, as did new activities related to trade, industrialization, sanitation, recreation,… Read More Robert Shields Mevissen (2025): The Danube Empire: An Environmental History of Habsburg State Building and Civic Engagement. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh.

What is commonly thought of as the centuries-old field of “the history of cartography” was invented after World War II through incomplete historiographies by Cornelis Koeman, Armando Cortesão, R. A. Skelton, and J. B. Harley. This monograph begins to replace those misleading historiographies with an empirically grounded analysis of the ways in which early maps… Read More Matthew H. Edney (2025): Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography” Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations. Leiden: Brill.