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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 5d

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

Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 20d

New review!

Nokmedemla Lemtur on ‘Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds’, edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.012

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 21d

New review!

Maria E. Karssenberg on Clive Oppenheimer’s ‘Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes’.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.013

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 22d

New review!

Anthony Picón-Rodríguez on Edgardo Pérez’s ‘El Caribe Cimarrón y los corsarios de Cartagena en la época de la Independencia’.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.001

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 23d

New review!

Elizabeth Edwards on 'Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography', by Siobhan Angus.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.006

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 26d

New review!

Carsten-Andreas Schulz on 'Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics, and Practices', edited by Peder Roberts & Alejandra Mancilla.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.004

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 27d

New review!

Elizabeth Baigent on 'Monet and London: Views of the Thames', edited by Karen Serres with contributions from Frances Fowle and Jennifer A. Thompson.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.009

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 28d

New article!

'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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 29d

New review!

Jane Wess on ‘Versailles: Science and Splendour’ at the Science Museum, London (12 December 2024–21 April 2025).

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.007

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Sep 8

New article!

'Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat', by Martin Mahony, Jenni Barclay, Karen Pascal, David M. Pyle & Jazmin Scarlett.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.002

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 26

New review!

Leonardo Porcelloni on Antonio Iodice's 'Through the Water and the Storm: Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.002

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 25

New article!

'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

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 22

New review!

Paulo Drinot on Elizabeth Montañez Sanabria's 'Cartografía histórica del Perú, desde 1529 hasta el siglo XXI'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.003

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 21

New article:

'The forests of Sheet'ká: Failed timber colonialism in Lingít Aaní', by Michael Kraemer,

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.007

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 20

New review!

Rudi Antono, Muhammad Naziful Haq & Adi Setiawan on Harry Poeze & Henk Schulte Nordholt's 'Merdeka: The Struggle for Indonesian Independence and the Republic’s Precarious Rise, 1945-1950' (trans. Gioia Marini).

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 19

New article:

'Timber colonialism in the periphery: Timber frontiers & indigenous peoples land use in northern Scandinavia & southern Patagonia in the late 19th and early 20th century', by Lars Östlund, Macarena Fernández Génova, Miguel Cáceres & Elle Eriksson.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.006

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 18

New review:

Imam Basthomi & Akilatul Azizah on Jan Breman's 'Colonialism, Capitalism, and Racism: A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice' (trans. by Andy Brown).

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.008

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