This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research. It consists of a coherent set of chapters that allow readers to study the spatial histories of cities, infrastructure, landscapes, and more across Europe. Each chapter is accompanied by Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) including GIS data, guides and complementary material in .pdf format,… Read More Jordi Martí-Henneberg (2023): Creative Ways to apply Historical GIS. Promoting Research and Teaching about Europe Creative Ways to apply Historical GIS: Promoting Research and Teaching about Europe. Springer: Cham.

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted-and still interact-with the environment around them, as well as the environment’s role in not only shaping the society’s world view but enabling the building of socially stratified and successful civilizations. Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this… Read More Julie Crea Dunbar (2022): Exploring World History through Geography. From the Cradle of Civilization to a Globalized World. Bloomsbury: London and New York.

This open access book explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period up to World War 1, focusing chiefly on the 18th and 19th centuries. Taking a multidisciplinary approach and making extensive use of the archival record, this is the first detailed, historical account of the relationship… Read More Isabella Alexander (2023): Copyright and Cartography. History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge. Bloomsbury: London and New York.

Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world’s only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began after his attempt to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday. Failing to find anything… Read More Peter Bellerby (2023): The Globemakers. The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft. Bloomsbury: London and New York.

Welche Faktoren beeinflussten die Wissensproduktion nicht-dominanter Gruppen in hierarchisierten Kontakträumen? Der Band geht dieser Frage anhand der ukrainischen Ševčenko-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften im habsburgischen Galizien des späten 19./frühen 20. Jahrhunderts nach, als die ukrainische Wissenschaftslandschaft nahezu monozentrisch auf diesen Verein ausgerichtet war. Durch das Prisma des Vereinsgeschehens lässt sich deshalb die aufkeimende ukrainischsprachige Wissenschaft mit einem… Read More Martin Rohde (2022): Nationale Wissenschaft zwischen zwei Imperien. Die Ševčenko-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1892–1918, V & R unipress: Göttingen.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the first of two volumes on the subject, the authors look beyond the political tensions of the region, to argue for the need for shared water security and co-operative resource management. The History of… Read More Christopher Ward, Sandra Ruckstuhl and Isabelle Learmont (2023): The History of Water in the Land Once Called Palestine: Scarcity, Conflict and Loss in Middle East Water Resources. I.B.Tauris: London, New York.

This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research. It consists of a coherent set of chapters that allow readers to study the spatial histories of cities, infrastructure, landscapes, and more across Europe. Each chapter is accompanied by Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) including GIS data, guides and complementary material in .pdf format,… Read More Jordi Martí-Henneberg (Ed.) (2023): Creative Ways to apply Historical GIS: Promoting Research and Teaching about Europe. Springer: Cham.

Als Flüchtling kam Adelbert von Chamisso in den Wirren der französischen Revolution nach Deutschland. Seine Heimat und seine Sprache hatte er verloren – in der Fremdsprache Deutsch begann er zu dichten, erfand die Gestalt des schattenlosen Peter Schlemihl und wurde damit berühmt. Aber damit war er nicht angekommen, im Gegenteil: In einer Zeit, in der selbst… Read More Matthias Glaubrecht (2023): Dichter, Naturkundler, Welterforscher: Adelbert von Chamisso und die Suche nach der Nordostpassage,Galiani: Berlin.