Historical Geography
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A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area: Volume 3
$31.18 Add to cartAn alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized i- Series: People’s Guide #3
- Author: Brahinsky, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 520288378
- Language: English
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
$16.95 Add to cartWith a New Preface by the Author
Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its p- Author: Savoy, Lauret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1619028255
- Language: English
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Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
$39.95 Add to cartIn Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to de
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0807178543
- Language: English
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Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
$31.18 Add to cartHella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment.
Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and mo- Author: Schwarzer, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 520391535
- Language: English
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When on Earth?: History as You’ve Never Seen It Before!
$21.99 Add to cartThis captivating children’s atlas gives a complete history of the life and times of our world, through a series of stunning, specially commissioned 3D maps.
Wrap up warm for a trip to the Ice Age, won- Series: Where on Earth?
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1465429409
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Boston History
$43.00 Add to cartFew American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston’s. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has… [more below]
- Author: Seasholes, Nancy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 022663115X
- Language: English
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Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
$19.95 Add to cartResidents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topo
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0295999403
- Language: English
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
$45.00 Add to cartMore than a history, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is a book of science, natural history, and imagination, a call for us to stretch our thoughts back to 1609 when Henry Hudson first s… [more below]
- Author: Sanderson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1419707485
- Language: English
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Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
$19.95 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Ameri
- Author: Cronon, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308731
- Language: English
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Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Corners
$15.00 Add to cart‘This engrossing book traverses the heights and depths, the beauty and terror, of our world.’ – THE OBSERVER
Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and arcane. His- Series: Unexpected Atlases
- Author: Elborough, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0711264015
- Language: English
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Landmarks
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland–a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place
For years now, the British wr- Series: Landscapes #4
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0241967872
- Language: English
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In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the Appian Way
$32.99 Read moreReconstructing Paul’s journey to Rome, day by day
In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the Appian Way guides readers along Paul’s 150-mile journey to face trial before the Roman emperor (Acts 28)- Author: Thompson, Glen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10, 2024
- ISBN10: 1683597249
- Language: English
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Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West
$29.95 Add to cartAmerican Scientist Recommended Read
Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. I- Series: Environment and Region in the American West
- Author: Dant, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: June 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496229541
- Language: English
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The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft
$30.00 Read more“Beautifully conceived and skillfully executed . . . encourages the reader to linger and explore.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Peter Bellerby’s tale of learning how to fashion worlds–a journey through- Author: Bellerby, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1639731563
- Language: English
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The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
$30.00 Add to cartA revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold–if we act now
From the very creation of the planet billions of ye- Author: Gleick, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702271
- Language: English
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to to… [more below]
- Series: Politics of Place #4
- Author: Marshall, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178639
- Language: English
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
$23.00 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are
- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 07, 2017
- ISBN10: 1101912375
- Language: English
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World
$21.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers–“fans of geography, history, and politics (… [more below]
- Series: Politics of Place #1
- Author: Marshall, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1501121472
- Language: English
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Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast
$25.95 Add to cartThe Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with “small
- Author: Jackson, Harvey H., III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345318
- Language: English
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Remarkable Golf Courses
$40.00 Add to cartRemarkable Golf Courses encompasses the extremes of the sport – from the highest golf course in La Paz, Bolivia, to the lowest, in Death Valley, USA; from the most northerly in the Arctic Circle to t
- Author: Spragg, Iain T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1911595040
- Language: English
