Hidalgo sheds new light on the purpose, production, and preservation of maps as well as the lives of Indigenous peoples and Spaniards alike involved in their production...

How does the world of book reviews work?

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

Bolleter explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy...

Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

This is a map that proclaims empire: from the prominent royal arms, to the ships riding at anchor out in what is labelled the ‘North Sea’...

Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?

Park focuses on the movement of Koreans around the point where China, Russia and Korea converged from the mid-19th century onwards...

Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...

Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project...

How do states use cultural policy?

"Beyond Mobility" is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places...

Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...

Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

By now we all know that Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades, and even centuries, of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations...

Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...