Lange Zeit wurde Alexander von Humboldt missverstanden als nur historisch interessante Figur. Doch mittlerweile ist sowohl die herausragende Qualität seiner literarischen und wissenschaftlichen Schriften als auch seine Bedeutung als Vor-Denker der Globalisierung unbestritten. Ottmar Ette beschreibt die Entstehung des Humboldt‘schen Denkens, fragt nach den für Alexander von Humboldt so wichtigen revolutionären historischen und wissenschaftlichen Kontexten,… Read More Ottmar Ette (2019): Alexander von Humboldt und die Globalisierung. Das Mobile des Wissens. Suhrkamp: Frankfurt a. M. u.a.

Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia. While the discipline of geography has had much to say about how such environmental transformations occur, few studies have focused on the lives of geographers themselves, their ideologies, and how… Read More Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D’Souza, Rohan (Hg.) (2019): Geography in Britain after World War II: Nature, Climate, and the Etchings of Time. Palgrave Macmillan: London.

Jahrtausende galten sie als unüberwindlich: Die Lage der Alpen zwischen dem früh zivilisierten Mittelmeer und dem sehr fruchtbaren, ebenso früh besiedelten Mitteleuropa machte aus ihnen lange Zeit einen Riegel, der überwunden werden musste, um die beiden Gebiete zu verbinden. Hansjörg Küster folgt der Geschichte der Alpen von ihrer Entstehung durch die Kollision der afrikanischen mit… Read More Hansjörg Küster (2020): Die Alpen. Geschichte einer Landschaft. C. H. Beck: München.

Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650… Read More Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley (eds.) (2019): The History of Cartography, Volume 4, Cartography in the European Enlightenment. Chicago University Press: Chicago.

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other’s disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase ‚Hic sunt dracones‘ (‚Here be dragons‘), warning sailors of the dangers of drifting into uncharted waters. Nearly half a millennium earlier, the practice of ‘earth-writing’ (geographia) emerged from the… Read More Charles Travis, Franics Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris (Eds.)(2020): Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis Landscapes of Time and Place, Springer: Cham.

This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme… Read More Alexander J. Kent, Soetkin Vervust, Imre Josef Demhardt, Nick Millea (2020): Mapping empires: colonial cartographies of land and sea : 7th international symposium of the ICA commission on the history of cartography, 2018, Springer: Cham.