Journal of Historical Geography
@jofhistgeog.bsky.social
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
… and last but not least,
‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
16/16
‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
16/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
… and last but not least,
‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
16/16
‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
16/16
‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
‘Humboldt’s geographical history: Oceans and Americas in Examen critique’, by Josefina Gómez-Mendoza.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
14/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
14/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Humboldt’s geographical history: Oceans and Americas in Examen critique’, by Josefina Gómez-Mendoza.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
14/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
14/16
‘The Cartographic invention of Hong Kong: Alexander Dalrymple and the British colonisation of the Pearl River Estuary, 1646–1841’, by Maxime Decaudin.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
13/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
13/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘The Cartographic invention of Hong Kong: Alexander Dalrymple and the British colonisation of the Pearl River Estuary, 1646–1841’, by Maxime Decaudin.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
13/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
13/16
‘Periodical geography and geographical correspondence in the Naval Chronicle (1799–1818)’, by Yannan Ding.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
12/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
12/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Periodical geography and geographical correspondence in the Naval Chronicle (1799–1818)’, by Yannan Ding.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
12/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
12/16
‘Tracing the shores of empire: Imperial visuality on the Chinese coast in the late-Qing era’, by Mimi Cheng.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
11/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
11/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Tracing the shores of empire: Imperial visuality on the Chinese coast in the late-Qing era’, by Mimi Cheng.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
11/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.003
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
11/16
‘Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868’, by Annabel Storr.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.008
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
10/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.008
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
10/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868’, by Annabel Storr.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.008
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
10/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.008
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
10/16
‘Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895’, by Daniel A. Finch-Race.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
9/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
9/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895’, by Daniel A. Finch-Race.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
9/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
9/16
‘Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809)’, by Mirela Altic.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
8/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
8/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809)’, by Mirela Altic.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
8/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.001
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
8/16
‘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
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
7/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
7/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘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
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
7/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
7/16
‘The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea’, by Marco Petrella & Matteo Proto.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.009
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
6/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.009
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
6/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea’, by Marco Petrella & Matteo Proto.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.009
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
6/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.009
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
6/16
‘Adriano Balbi and the definition of oceans, seas and “Open Mediterraneans”: The dialogue between geography and cartography with Evangelista Azzi’, by Arturo Gallia & Mirko Castaldi.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.011
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
5/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.011
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
5/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Adriano Balbi and the definition of oceans, seas and “Open Mediterraneans”: The dialogue between geography and cartography with Evangelista Azzi’, by Arturo Gallia & Mirko Castaldi.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.011
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
5/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.011
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
5/16
‘The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff’s Great Historical Rivers: Anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity’, by Federico Ferretti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.007
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
4/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.007
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
4/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff’s Great Historical Rivers: Anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity’, by Federico Ferretti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.007
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
4/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.007
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
4/16
‘Mediterranean islands in Ptolemy’s Geography: Mapping seas through geometrization’, by Dmitry A. Shcheglov.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.004
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
3/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.004
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
3/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Mediterranean islands in Ptolemy’s Geography: Mapping seas through geometrization’, by Dmitry A. Shcheglov.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.004
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
3/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.004
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
3/16
‘Introducing liquid worlds: Historical geographies and cartographies of the sea’, by special issue editors Federico Ferretti and André Reyes Novaes.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
2/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
2/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Introducing liquid worlds: Historical geographies and cartographies of the sea’, by special issue editors Federico Ferretti and André Reyes Novaes.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
2/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.005
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
2/16
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
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