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Historical Geography (historical + geography)
Selected AbstractsTIME-SPACE COMPRESSION: Historical Geographies.GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2010By Barney Warf. No abstract is available for this article. [source] Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987,2007HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2008Michael Roche This article reviews historical geography in New Zealand over the period 1987 to 2007. It indicates that research in the 1980s and 1990s has filled some of the gaps identified by earlier reviewers while more recent research has used new approaches to pose new questions such as those surrounding post colonialism. A feature of historical geography research over the last 15 years has been a number of collaborative projects, most notably a national historical atlas. The future for historical geography in New Zealand arguably calls for a stronger re-engagement with human geography. [source] Quebec: A Historical Geography by Serge CourvilleTHE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 2 2009COLIN COATES No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Perils of Historical Geography: On a Pretended Lost Map to a Legendary Sunken ForestARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 3 2010Edward Eigen Abstract Our perception of territory and the geographical terrain continues to be influenced as much by our cultural persuasions and desires as by the reality of hard facts. Edward Eigen trawls the literature of Mont-Saint-Michel to reveal the fascinating case of the mythical forest that surfaced on an erroneous 18th-century map of the abbey and its environs. Could this plot against history have put myth in danger of triumphing over reason? Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Historical geography and early Canada: a life and an interpretationTHE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 4 2008COLE HARRIS The first section of this two-part paper describes my historical geographical career, particularly the topics and issues I have pursued and the changing intellectual environment in which they have been situated. The second section offers a summary interpretation of the emerging human geography of early-modern Canada followed by some reflections on its contemporary implications. This interpretation stresses the extent to which boundaries and discontinuities marked early Canada, and contrasts a pinched Canadian experience with the land with a far more expansive American one. It shows how deeply difference was constructed and ingrained in the Canadian past, and suggests some challenges and opportunities that follow from this inheritance. La première partie de cet article dé;crit ma carrière de gé;ographe historique, en pré;sentant les sujets et les enjeux que j'ai approfondis et le contexte intellectuel changeant dans lequel ils furent abordé;s. La deuxième partie offre une interpré;tation sommaire de la gé;ographie humaine du Canada avant la Confé;dé;ration, suivie de quelques ré;flexions sur ses implications actuelles. Cette interpré;tation dé;montre à quel point les frontières et les discontinuité;s ont marqué; les dé;buts du Canada, opposant un rapport à la terre plein de ré;serve, pour ne pas dire coïncé;, en comparaison avec celui des é;tats-Unis. Elle montre combien la diffé;rence fut construite et enraciné;e dans le passé; canadien, et dé;crit certains des dé;fis et occasions que cet hé;ritage fait naître aujourd'hui. [source] Tales from the archive: methodological and ethical issues in historical geography researchAREA, Issue 3 2010Francesca P L Moore This paper is an exploration of methodological and ethical issues in historical geography research. Drawing on the experience of researching the historical geographies of abortion in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lancashire, the paper discusses some of the ethical and methodological questions that historical research on sensitive topics raises. This paper investigates the politics of the archive and the forms of censorship researchers may encounter. It also explores the possibility of a conflict of interest between researcher and participant, including the dilemmas researchers face when research participants are dead, but remain important figures in the community. Moreover, the paper argues that the recent burgeoning interest in family and local history makes questions of method and ethics far more urgent for the geographer. In conclusion, the paper calls for more dialogue within geography about researching sensitive subjects, and also between geography and other disciplines. [source] CHANNING COPE AND THE MAKING OF A MIRACLE VINE,GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 2 2004DEREK H. ALDERMAN ABSTRACT. The history of kudzu illustrates the fluidity with which people can redefine their cultural relationship with exotic species. Although much of American society views the fast-growing Asian vine as a pest, this has not always been the case. During the first half of the twentieth century, individual entrepreneurs and government officials touted kudzu as a "miracle vine" and carried out massive planting campaigns across the southeastern United States. This study traces the changing place of kudzu within southern society from its introduction in the late 1800s to the present. Specific attention is devoted to the role that the gentleman farmer, author, and radio personality Channing Cope played in popularizing the cultivation of kudzu. Cope's promotional activities are interpreted as environmental claims making. Analysis focuses on the metaphors he used in persuading the public of kudzu's supposed benefits. Conducting such an examination advances our general understanding of the historical geography of exotics in America and the importance of human agency and cultural representation in the spread of non-native organisms. [source] "THE FARTHER REACHES OF HUMAN TIME": RETROSPECT ON CARL SAUER AS PREHISTORIAN,GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2002DAVID R. HARRIS ABSTRACT. Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889,1975) is widely regarded as one of the most influential geographers of the twentieth century, admired particularly for his studies in cultural and historical geography. His contribution to the study of prehistory is less widely acknowledged, but, between 1944 and 1962, he published a series of speculative yet scholarly papers that contain many prescient insights into humanity's remote past and the relationships of our ancestors to the environments they occupied,and modified. In this essay, based on the Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture given at the University of California, Berkeley, in October 2001, I reflect on Sauer's contribution to the science of prehistory by examining, in the light of recent advances in knowledge, two major themes of Sauer's work: the early dispersal of Homo sapiens in the Old World, and the origins and prehistoric spread of agriculture. [source] Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987,2007HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2008Michael Roche This article reviews historical geography in New Zealand over the period 1987 to 2007. It indicates that research in the 1980s and 1990s has filled some of the gaps identified by earlier reviewers while more recent research has used new approaches to pose new questions such as those surrounding post colonialism. A feature of historical geography research over the last 15 years has been a number of collaborative projects, most notably a national historical atlas. The future for historical geography in New Zealand arguably calls for a stronger re-engagement with human geography. [source] ,Amsterdam is Standing on Norway' Part I: The Alchemy of Capital, Empire and Nature in the Diaspora of Silver, 1545,1648JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 1 2010JASON W. MOORE In the first of two essays in this Journal, I seek to unify the historical geography of early modern ,European expansion' (Iberia and Latin America) with the environmental history of the ,transition to capitalism' (northwestern Europe). The expansion of Europe's overseas empires and the transitions to capitalism within Europe were differentiated moments within the geographical expansion of commodity production and exchange , what I call the commodity frontier. This essay is developed in two movements. Beginning with a conceptual and methodological recasting of the historical geography of the rise of capitalism, I offer an analytical narrative that follows the early modern diaspora of silver. This account follows the political ecology of silver production and trade from the Andes to Spain in Braudel's ,second' sixteenth century (c. 1545,1648). In highlighting the Ibero-American moment of this process in the present essay, I contend that the spectacular reorganization of Andean space and the progressive dilapidation of Spain's real economy not only signified the rise and demise of a trans-Atlantic, Iberian ecological regime, but also generated the historically necessary conditions for the unprecedented concentration of accumulation and commodity production in the capitalist North Atlantic in the centuries that followed. [source] Evolution of the second orangutan: phylogeny and biogeography of hominid originsJOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, Issue 10 2009John R. Grehan Abstract Aim, To resolve the phylogeny of humans and their fossil relatives (collectively, hominids), orangutans (Pongo) and various Miocene great apes and to present a biogeographical model for their differentiation in space and time. Location, Africa, northern Mediterranean, Asia. Methods, Maximum parsimony analysis was used to assess phylogenetic relationships among living large-bodied hominoids (= humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), and various related African, Asian and European ape fossils. Biogeographical characteristics were analysed for vicariant replacement, main massings and nodes. A geomorphological correlation was identified for a clade we refer to as the ,dental hominoids', and this correlation was used to reconstruct their historical geography. Results, Our analyses support the following hypotheses: (1) the living large-bodied hominoids represent a monophyletic group comprising two sister clades: humans + orangutans, and chimpanzees (including bonobos) + gorillas (collectively, the African apes); and (2) the human,orangutan clade (dental hominoids) includes fossil hominids (Homo, australopiths, Orrorin) and the Miocene-age apes Hispanopithecus, Ouranopithecus, Ankarapithecus, Sivapithecus, Lufengpithecus, Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus (also Plio-Pleistocene of eastern Asia). We also demonstrate that the distributions of living and fossil genera are largely vicariant, with nodes of geographical overlap or proximity between Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus in Central Asia, and between Pongo, Gigantopithecus, Lufengpithecus and Khoratpithecus in East Asia. The main massing is represented by five genera and eight species in East Asia. The dental hominoid track is spatially correlated with the East African Rift System (EARS) and the Tethys Orogenic Collage (TOC). Main conclusions, Humans and orangutans share a common ancestor that excludes the extant African apes. Molecular analyses are compromised by phenetic procedures such as alignment and are probably based on primitive retentions. We infer that the human,orangutan common ancestor had established a widespread distribution by at least 13 Ma. Vicariant differentiation resulted in the ancestors of hominids in East Africa and various primarily Miocene apes distributed between Spain and Southeast Asia (and possibly also parts of East Africa). The geographical disjunction between early hominids and Asian Pongo is attributed to local extinctions between Europe and Central Asia. The EARS and TOC correlations suggest that these geomorphological features mediated establishment of the ancestral range. [source] Insights from historical geography to ecology and conservation: lessons from the New England landscapeJOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, Issue 10-11 2002David R. Foster First page of article [source] The Timber Trade in Southeastern Brazil, 1920,1960BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2005Christian Brannstrom Logging economies in Latin America have long supplied forest resources to international and domestic markets. One of Latin America's more significant timber regions supplied South America's largest industrial metropolis, São Paulo. However, relatively little is known about the historical geography of logging in Brazil, or elsewhere in Latin America, in part because of the bias of forest histories to the destruction, rather than utilisation, of forest resources. This study focuses on domestic demand for hardwood and its salient characteristics: transport, the distribution of sawmills, the use of contracts and dangerous working conditions. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||