Borders in Red shows how Lenin and his Bolshevik leadership embraced the nationality question as a way of managing diversity and institutionalized it as a means of governance. Stephan Rindlisbacher uses the making of national borders as a lens through which to examine the Bolsheviks‘ fundamental shift from proletarian internationalism to ethnonational federalism sui generis.… Read More Stephan Rindlisbacher (2025). Borders in Red. Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union. Cornell: New York.

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of the Lieutenant Herbert Schröder-Stranz German Arctic Expedition of 1912 in Spitsbergen (Svalbard). The book portrays the cooperative and strategic endeavors of… Read More Mary R. Tahan and Cornelia Lüdecke (2024). Stranded at the Top of the World. A Story of Exploration and Heroic Rescue in the Arctic. Springer: Cham

The blank spots on a map and the legends that speak of terrae incognitae are among the most seductive sirens of the cartographic imagination. They hint at the existence of unknown lands, yet tell us nothing about what they are or what they might be like. Do such lands even exist? How many types of… Read More Carla Lois (2025): Terrae Incognitae. Mapping the Unknown. Brill: Leiden and Boston.

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.

Der vorliegende 122. Band der Schriftenreihe „Berliner Geographische Arbeiten“ versammelt zwölf Beiträge, die die Geographie als eine sich stets in Bewegung befindende Wissenschaft zeigen, in der Wandel, Unsicherheit und methodische Vielfalt als Voraussetzungen des wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgewinns begriffen werden. Neben institutionellen und fachhistorischen Reflexionen liegen inhaltliche Schwerpunkte auf geomorphologischen, bodenkundlichen und geoökologischen Fragestellungen sowie geographiedidaktischen Perspektiven… Read More Mohsen Makki, Barbara Richter, Reinhard Kleßen, Benjamin Schulenburg (Hg.). (2026). Aufbruch der Formen: Geographische Perspektiven in Bewegung. Berliner Geographische Arbeiten 122.