The mountainous West: explorations in historical geography
Historical geography ; Mountain ; Natural environment ; Resource management ; United States of America
Fourteen essays by North American geographers organized around the themes of barriers, islands of moisture, zones of concentrated resources, areas of governmental control, restorative sanctuary, and the mountain-valley interface. All essays deal
Die Berücksichtigung des historischen Aspekts bei der Analyse von Geosystemen. (Consideration of the historical aspect in the analysis of geosystems)
Based on the principle of systematic analysis, the peculiarities in analysing geographical objects regarded as geosystems are described and the historical aspects are taken into consideration. These peculiarities consist of aspects of limitation
From The Jungle to the council : a historic sense of place in Special issue on the Midwest.
Geographic reconstruction of the Back of the Yards , a Chicago neighbourhood dominated by the Union Stockyards and an immigrant population. - (D. W. Gade).
Simple inventaire de toponymes mentionnés par les géographes ou poètes arabes et persans dans le nord-ouest de l'Afghanistan actuel. (Abstr. iran., 1979, 2, réf. 457).
Discourse ; Geographical imagination ; Justice ; Land ; Middle East ; Palestine ; Political geography ; Regulation ; Twentieth Century
In the first part of the paper, the A. presents popular understandings of and discourses about justice through two premises. The first one is that they depend on the geographical and historical frames – geographical imaginaries – through which we
understand the world; the second is that understandings of justice (including both abstract ideas and geographical imaginaries) are deeply historical and social. He then demonstrates the historical and social geographical imaginaries to assessments of justice
by examining the discourse surrounding the controversial 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine. A close look at the positions of each side reveals that their differences lay not in their abstract principles of justice but in the geographical imaginaries
Between space and time : reflections on the geographical imagination
Capitalism ; Esthetics ; Geopolitics ; Historical geography ; Social change ; Social life ; Social reproduction ; Social space ; Social theory ; Space ; Time
This study of the historical geography of concepts of space and time suggests that the roots of the social construction of these concepts lie in the mode of production and its characteristic social relations.
People and places on picture postcards : a high-interest source for geographic education
Cultural geography ; Historical geography ; Pedagogy ; Teaching material ; Teaching of geography
Picture postcards are a rich data source for historical, physical and cultural geography that can be used by skilled teachers for learners at different ages. - (DWG)
Historickogeografické pojeti vzniky Prahy a puvodu jejiho jména. (Historical-geographic concept of the origin of Prague (Praha) and the origin of its name)
Geographic research ; Historical geography ; Italy ; Water
Within the international Congress Mundus Novus - Amerigo Vespucci and the methods of historical and geographical research (Florence 2002), an exhibition has been organised under the title. - (NF)
Geographer ; Historical geography ; History of cartography ; History of geography ; Hungary ; Political geography ; Twentieth Century
Géographe ; Géographie historique ; Géographie politique ; Histoire de la cartographie ; Histoire de la géographie ; Hongrie ; Siècle 20 ; TELEKI (P.)
This paper summarises the professional work of the internationally well-known geographer-cartographer count Paul Teleki. Teleki's (1879-1941) professional work received high international reputation in the fields of cartography, historical
Historical geography of rural settlement in Poland
Bibliography ; Cultural geography ; Historical geography ; Poland ; Rural history ; Rural population ; Settlement ; Village
In the present paper a tentation synthesis of geographic-historical research on villages in Poland is presented. The emphasis is put not on a discussion of the particular studies but on directions of research and presentation of most often applied
At first the author gives an introduction into the history and the physical features of the area between today Gdansk and Klaipeda. Main topic of the book is an alphabetical list of geographical names of landscapes in the former Prussian province
and its border areas. Every landscape is described physically and historically. The borderlines and the location on historical and new topographic maps are given. All informations about the location and the spatial division of the landscapes are drawn
Australia ; Daily life ; Disability ; Historical geography ; Melbourne ; Social space ; Victoria
The paper contributes to the historical-geographical understanding of disability in Australia by exploring the spatial context of physical impairment in 19th century Melbourne. The paper seeks to locate disabled people by showing where and how
they lived, and to illustrate the socio-spatial relations that shaped their lives. Although the social geographical focus of the paper is on the historical domestic environment, the analysis also considers other key social spaces. The paper traces some
, and the geographical dimension of their use are briefly commented. Their petrographic characteristics and the possibilities for transport by waterways have played a major part in determining their economic, cultural and historical meaning. - (LW)
Israeli historical geography and the Holocaust : reconsidering the research agenda
Historical geography ; Israel ; Jews ; National territory ; Nationalism ; Practice of geography ; Research ; Zionism
As in many other cases of nation-building, Israeli geographers have played an important role in the manipulation of landscapes and places to form a modern Jewish Israeli national identity. Their role in the construction of national consciousness
expanded following the development of a territorial national conflict with the Palestinian Arabs. They almost totally neglect Diaspora lifestyles and spatialities and ignore the impact of the geographical imagination of Diaspora Jews on the (re)construction
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of HistoricalGeographers, Kyoto, 2009
Colonization ; Congress ; Environmental conservation ; Health ; Historical geography ; Imperialism ; Landscape ; Tourism
essays on the landscape history of Japan, essays and abstracts (entirely in English) are presented on the following themes : migration and colonization; environmental change ; rural landscapes ; geographical knowledges ; territory and identity
; urbanization ; conservation and heritage ; cartography and knowledge ; survey and imperialism ; health and disease ; digital humanities and historical GIS ; leisure and tourism ; industrialization; and landscape history. Information on five fieldtrips
Research of historical landscape by using old maps with focus to its positional accuracy
Cartography ; Comparative study ; Czech Republic ; Geographical information system ; Historical mapping ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Landscape structure ; Old map ; Středočeský
Old maps are an important historical source for exploring historical landscapes. They are often used as cartographic bases for studying structural changes and reconstruction of land use. This study is concerned with comparison of positional accuracy
of a set of 'old maps' as compared to present-day maps. Determination of positional deviations defines the degree of precision of the old map and its potential for its use in GIS applications. The total of ten unique historical maps in different scales
Historical geography ; Hungary ; Settlement ; Twentieth Century
In this paper, A. analyses the development of historical geography in Hungary over the last hundred years with special attention to the role of Tibor Mendöl, a distinguished human geographer of the country in the 20th century. In general, Hungarian
historical geography has always been closely linked to the ruling paradigm of geography, and followed the main trends of the discipline. The interwar period was the heyday of human geography in Hungary, Tibor Mendöl and other leading representatives
of the discipline determined the role and position of historical geography within this context. Although his main field of interest was not historical geography (but settlement geography), nevertheless his essays had a strong impact on the development
of this discipline, both with regard theory and methods. After World War II historical geography became politically and scientifically rather isolated, and its revival started gradually only from the 1970s onwards. - (JS)