Journal of Historical Geography
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A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields.
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New review:
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review:
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
New article!
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New article!
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
New review!
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
New article!
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New article!
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
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Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
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Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
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Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
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Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
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New review!
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
New article!
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New article!
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
New review!
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
New review!
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
New article!
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
Vol. 89 is out!
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Take a look at the contents below 🧵
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October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Vol. 89 is out!
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Take a look at the contents below 🧵
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New article!
'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
New review!
Rodrigo Escribano Roca on Derek S. Denman's 'Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.009
Rodrigo Escribano Roca on Derek S. Denman's 'Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.009
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!
Rodrigo Escribano Roca on Derek S. Denman's 'Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.009
Rodrigo Escribano Roca on Derek S. Denman's 'Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.009
New article!
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
New article!
'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001
'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001
October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001
'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001
New article!
'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010
'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010
'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010
New article!
'A different genealogy for twentieth-century ecological thought: Max Sorre's human ecology', by Dylan Simon.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004
'A different genealogy for twentieth-century ecological thought: Max Sorre's human ecology', by Dylan Simon.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'A different genealogy for twentieth-century ecological thought: Max Sorre's human ecology', by Dylan Simon.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004
'A different genealogy for twentieth-century ecological thought: Max Sorre's human ecology', by Dylan Simon.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004
New review!
Jahzeel Aguilera Lara on 'Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America', edited by Jennifer L. French.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.008
Jahzeel Aguilera Lara on 'Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America', edited by Jennifer L. French.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.008
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New review!
Jahzeel Aguilera Lara on 'Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America', edited by Jennifer L. French.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.008
Jahzeel Aguilera Lara on 'Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America', edited by Jennifer L. French.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.008
New article!
'The Storyteller's legacy: Materiality, commemoration, and the geography of historical markers', by Yusik Choi & Alberto Giordano.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.006
'The Storyteller's legacy: Materiality, commemoration, and the geography of historical markers', by Yusik Choi & Alberto Giordano.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.006
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'The Storyteller's legacy: Materiality, commemoration, and the geography of historical markers', by Yusik Choi & Alberto Giordano.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.006
'The Storyteller's legacy: Materiality, commemoration, and the geography of historical markers', by Yusik Choi & Alberto Giordano.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.006
New article:
'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005
'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New article:
'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005
'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005
New article!
'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001
'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001
'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001
New article!
'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New article!
'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
New review:
@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003
@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New review:
@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003
@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003