International scholarship is increasingly aware that the ‘geographical tradition’ is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions. This volume contains selected papers presented at two… Read More Bruno Schelhaas, Federico Ferretti, André Reyes Novaes, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg (2020): Decolonising and Internationalising Geography. Essays in the History of Contested Science, Springer: Cham.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences. The geohistorical approach can be synthetically defined as a multi- and interdisciplinary approach that uses techniques and perspectives, mainly from geography, history, and natural sciences, to examine… Read More Silvia Elena Piovan (2020): The Geohistorical Approach. Methods and Applications, Springer: Cham.

Als die Eisenbahntechnologie versprach, Berge zu versetzen, wurden weltweit Geographien ins Wanken gebracht. Nichts schien in Zukunft sein zu müssen, wie es war – auch nicht im Land der Fjorde und der langen Winter. Die Autorin schreibt anhand der norwegischen Eisenbahngeschichte einen Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte der europäischen Geographie. Sie untersucht, wie Debatten über den Eisenbahnbau… Read More Marie-Theres Fojuth (2019): Herrschaft über Land und Schnee. Norwegische Eisenbahngeographien 1845-1909 (= Geschichte der technischen Kultur, Band 7), Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn.

Over the past twenty years, scholars have increasingly questioned not just historical presumptions about the putative rise of modern science during the long nineteenth century but also the geographical contexts for and variability of science during the era. In Geographies of Knowledge, an internationally distinguished array of historians and geographers examine the spatialization of science… Read More Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J.Withers (eds.) (2020): Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context), Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.