Overview

Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.

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Author:   Mona Domosh ,  Michael Heffernan ,  Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Sage Publications Ltd
Weight:   2.360kg
ISBN:  

9781526404558

ISBN 10:   1526404559
Pages:   1168
Publication Date:   28 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

VOLUME 1 Editors' Introduction - Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan & Charles W. J. Withers Part I: Histories and Geographies Introduction to Part I - Michael Heffernan Chapter 1: Pre-histories - Robert Mayhew Chapter 2: Between History and Geography - Michael Heffernan and Karin M. Morin Chapter 3: The Modern Discipline - Heike Joens Chapter 4: East Central Europe - Steve Jobbitt and Robert Gyori Chapter 5: Russia and Eurasia - Jonathan D. Oldfield Part II: Land and Landscapes Introduction to Part II - Mona Domosh Chapter 6: Landscape and History - Veronica Della Dora Chapter 7: Landscape and Labour - Don Mitchell and Carlo Sica Chapter 8: Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes - Naomi Roux and Susan Parnell Chapter 9: Race, Land & Freedom - Brian Williams, Levi van Sant, Alex A. Moulton & Janae Davis Chapter 10: Global Cityscapes - Garth Myers Chapter 11: Land, Landscape and Home - Briony McDonagh Part III: Property and Money Introduction to Part III - Mona Domosh Chapter 12: The Place of Money in History - Chris Muellerleile Chapter 13: Building Capital - Jane M. Jacobs Chapter 14: Geographies of Dispossession - Vanessa Sloan Morgan, May Farrales and Sarah de Leeuw Chapter 15: Slavery and Empires - Joshua F.J. Inwood, Derek H. Alderman and Stephen P. Hanna Chapter 16: Industrialisation and Resistance - Andrew Davies Part IV: Population and Mobility Introduction to Part IV - Charles W. J. Withers Chapter 17: Enumerating the Populace - Matthew G. Hannah Chapter 18: Population, Mobility and Moral Regulation - Stephen Legg Chapter 19: Vagrancy, Mobility and Colonialism - Catherine Coleborne and Maree O'Connor Chapter 20: Troubling, Troubled, Troublesome - Cheryl McGeachan Chapter 21: Famine and Hunger: Enclosures, Entitlements and the Production of Starvation - David Nally Chapter 22: Disease: Dangerous Vectors - Paul Jackson VOLUME 2 Part V: Territory and Geopolitics Introduction to Part V - Michael Heffernan Chapter 23: Geography at War - Ian Klinke Chapter 24: State and Territory - Elliott Child and Trevor Barnes Chapter 25: Geography and the Holocaust - Anne Kelly Knowles Chapter 26: Cold War Planet - Matt Farish Chapter 27: Borders - Cordelia Freeman Part VI: Environment and Nature Introduction to Part VI - Michael Heffernan Chapter 28: Nature, Environment and the North - Richard Powell Chapter 29: Climate and Climate Change - Martin Mahony Chapter 30: Weather Watching - Georgina Endfield Chapter 31: Urban Nature - Matthew Gandy Chapter 32: Conservation - Mike Roche Part VII: Science and Technology Introduction to Part VII - Charles W. J. Withers Chapter 33: Outer Space - Oliver Dunnett Chapter 34: Technology as a Geographical Keyword - Scott Kirsch Chapter 35: Engineering - K. Maria D. Lane Chapter 36: Military Technology - Isla Forsyth Chapter 37: Colonial Water: Hydro-resilience, Engineering and Empire - Ruth Morgan Chapter 38: Mapping and the Physical Sciences - Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman Part VIII: Meaning and Communication Introduction to Part VIII - Charles W. J. Withers Chapter 39: Speech - Miles Ogborn Chapter 40: Worlds into Words - and Back Again - Innes M. Keighren and Benjamin Newman Chapter 41: Historical Geographies of Newspaper Print Media - Andres Reyes Novaes Chapter 42: Maps, Publishing, and Civil Authority in the Age of Print - James Akerman Chapter 43: Cultures of Regulation and Calibration - Lachlan Fleetwood Chapter 44: Historical Geographies of Big Data - Jeremy Crampton Part IX: Studies in Practice Introduction to Part IX - Mona Domosh Chapter 45: Memory, Materiality, Museology - Claire Warrior Chapter 46: Photography, Travel, Archives - Joan M. Schwartz Chapter 47: Architecture, Buildings, Stories - Hannah Neate Chapter 48: Craft and Practice - Nicola Thomas Chapter 49: History, Geography and the Geohumanities - Harriet Hawkins

Reviews

In these two indispensable volumes, editors Domosh, Heffernan and Withers bring together 50 diverse and vital voices to engage deeply with historical geography's past, present and future. The result of this remarkable collaboration is a guidebook to this distinctive field unlike any other. It is both an insightful, international overview and an exciting basis for informed engagement with today's world. Historical geography is quintessentially an interdisciplinary endeavor: with its lively and well-researched contributions addressing resonant themes from landscape to dispossession, outer space to big data, the Handbook of Historical Geography will spark the geographical imaginations of a wide readership. -- Laura Jean Cameron This is the book that historical geographers have long been waiting for. In fifty chapters organised into nine sections the authors provide an authoritative and engaging survey of the international field of historical geography. Taking a generous definition of the subject, the contributors take a fresh look at fundamental themes such as landscape, population, territory, industrialisation and environmental change, as well as addressing neglected topics of vital contemporary significance including geographies of money, slavery, war, dispossession and heritage practice. The chapters typically combine informed synopsis of research in a particular subject area (such as 'disease', 'engineering', 'global cityscapes', 'state and territory', 'the Holocaust', 'speech' or 'conservation') with arguments that are compelling, challenging and accessible. This book is testimony to the vitality and diversity of a field which has produced some of the finest writing in the discipline of geography. It will be a godsend to future generations of students and teachers -- Felix Driver Unparalleled in its vision and ambition, the SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography is an inspiring testament to the intellectual strength and vibrancy of geographical research on the past. Essays by more than 50 contributors extend across a diverse range of subjects, times, places and contexts, demonstrating the intellectual scope and depth of historical geography. The Handbook's historical geographies are conceptually and politically engaged, methodologically rigorous and creative, and empirically rich and resonant. From chapters focusing on slavery, famine, disease and climate change, to the historiography of historical geography and research in practice, the Handbook will make a vital and lasting contribution to understanding the past, making sense of the present and imagining possible futures. -- Alison Blunt

Unparalleled in its vision and ambition, the SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography is an inspiring testament to the intellectual strength and vibrancy of geographical research on the past. Essays by more than 50 contributors extend across a diverse range of subjects, times, places and contexts, demonstrating the intellectual scope and depth of historical geography. The Handbook's historical geographies are conceptually and politically engaged, methodologically rigorous and creative, and empirically rich and resonant. From chapters focusing on slavery, famine, disease and climate change, to the historiography of historical geography and research in practice, the Handbook will make a vital and lasting contribution to understanding the past, making sense of the present and imagining possible futures. -- Alison Blunt This is the book that historical geographers have long been waiting for. In fifty chapters organised into nine sections the authors provide an authoritative and engaging survey of the international field of historical geography. Taking a generous definition of the subject, the contributors take a fresh look at fundamental themes such as landscape, population, territory, industrialisation and environmental change, as well as addressing neglected topics of vital contemporary significance including geographies of money, slavery, war, dispossession and heritage practice. The chapters typically combine informed synopsis of research in a particular subject area (such as 'disease', 'engineering', 'global cityscapes', 'state and territory', 'the Holocaust', 'speech' or 'conservation') with arguments that are compelling, challenging and accessible. This book is testimony to the vitality and diversity of a field which has produced some of the finest writing in the discipline of geography. It will be a godsend to future generations of students and teachers -- Felix Driver In these two indispensable volumes, editors Domosh, Heffernan and Withers bring together 50 diverse and vital voices to engage deeply with historical geography's past, present and future. The result of this remarkable collaboration is a guidebook to this distinctive field unlike any other. It is both an insightful, international overview and an exciting basis for informed engagement with today's world. Historical geography is quintessentially an interdisciplinary endeavor: with its lively and well-researched contributions addressing resonant themes from landscape to dispossession, outer space to big data, the Handbook of Historical Geography will spark the geographical imaginations of a wide readership. -- Laura Jean Cameron

Author Information

Mona Domosh is the Joan P. and Edward J. Foley Jr. 1933 Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Recent publications include 'Historical geographies of, and for, the present', Progress in Human Geography 44, 2020, 168-188, with Levi Van Sant, Elizabeth Hennessy, Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Nathan McClintock, and Sharlene Mollett, and 'Race, biopolitics, and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43, 2018, 312-324. Michael Heffernan is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. Recent publications include Geographies of the University (Springer 2018), coedited with Peter Meusburger and Laura Suarsana, and Locating Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), coedited with Stephen Legg, Jake Hodder and Benjamin Thorpe. Professor Charles W J Withers is Ogilvie Chair of Geography and Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a professor in Edinburgh since 1994. He is a fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and the Royal Historical Society. In 2008, he was awarded the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of his 'outstanding and sustained contribution to historical geography, the history of cartography and to the history of geographical knowledge'. In 2012, he was awarded the Founders' Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. This, one of the Society's two Royal Gold Medals, was given in respect of his 'world-leading encouragement and development of historical and cultural geography'. Professor Withers' research and teaching interests centre on the historical geography of science and the Enlightenment, the historical geographies of print and exploration, and the history of cartography. He is the author or co-author of ten research monographs, and a further nine co-edited volumes, in addition to numerous scholarly articles and essays. His co-authored Scotland: Mapping the Nation (written with Chris Fleet and Margaret Wilkes), which was published in 2011 by Birlinn Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, was the Scottish Research Book of the Year in the Saltire Society Literary Awards for 2012. His most recent book, co-authored with Innes Keighren and Bill Bell, is Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859'. This was published by the University of Chicago Press in May 2015. In 2015, he was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to the position of Geographer Royal for Scotland, the first person to hold this title as a personal honorific for 118 years. He is currently writing a historical geography of the Prime Meridian, a narrative for which we know the solution ('Greenwich, from 1884') but not the problem.

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