How did modern territoriality emerge and what are its consequences? This book examines these key questions with a unique global perspective. Kerry Goettlich argues that linear boundaries are products of particular colonial encounters, rather than being essentially an intra-European practice artificially imposed on colonized regions. He reconceptualizes modern territoriality as a phenomenon separate from sovereignty… Read More Kerry Goettlich (2025): From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. CUP: Cambridge.

Der vorliegende Band bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung des Verbands für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (VGDH). Sein „Herzstück” bildet ein über 90 Seiten umfassender Zeitstrahl, der zentrale Ereignisse der Verbandsgeschichte chronologisch dokumentiert. Ergänzt wird dieser durch Beiträge, die ausgewählte Entwicklungen vertiefend einordnen und erläutern. Eckart Ehlers zeichnet die Entwicklung der Verbandsstrukturen der… Read More Boris Braun, Franziska Krachten, Carsten Butsch (Hrsg.) (2025): Debatten und Entwicklungslinien – von den Anfängen des VGDH bis heute (= Colloquium Geographicum, Band 41). E. Ferger Verlag: Bonn.

Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history… Read More David N. Livingstone (2024): The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.

Providing an in-depth exploration into the rivers of Habsburg Galicia (part of Austrian Poland) in the 19th century, this volume combines analysis of historical hydrographic data with modern GIS and remote sensing tools. Considering geographical and historical factors, this book draws on both natural processes and human activities to analyse how river valleys function and… Read More Tomasz Kargol (2026): The Rivers of Habsburg Galicia Between Flow and Control. Routledge: London and New York.

Between 1888 and 1914, U.S. geographical societies became central institutions mediating the production and circulation of geographic knowledge. Anchoring his analysis in the American Geographical Society, Maximilian Reimann moves beyond celebrated explorers to examine the knowledge infrastructures, networks, and everyday labor of editors, librarians, and councilors who defined modern geography. He traces how knowledge traveled… Read More Maximilian Reimann (2026): Mediating Geographic Knowledge. U.S. Geographical Societies, 1888-1914, transcript: Bielefeld.