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...

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

How do states use cultural policy?

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...

Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..

Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...

Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....

Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...

Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...

Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...

HadžiMuhamedović takes readers through intimate encounters and syncretic moments as he and his interlocutors wait for Elijah’s Day...

For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...

What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become?

Edelson shows how the Crown and the Board of Trade initiated the mapping of every new corner of Britain’s American dominions – places that were also the ancestral homes of Native Americans and the site of emerging settler republics...

The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...

With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...