Journal of Historical Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Historical Geography is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Appropriating disasters. A framework for cultural historical research on catastrophes in Europe, 1500–19009
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience9
Commemorative vigilance between totalitarianisms: Slovakia’s 'Victims Warn' sculpture, from counter-monument to anti-monument8
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Governing the private scales of families and homes: Visiting nurses and Turkey's mobilization of consumptive care5
Mapping a French Department in the northeastern Amazonia: The 1947 Oyapock mission in a context of Decolonization5
Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–19305
Shifting terrains of risk: A history of natural hazards and displacement in three historic black communities of Central Austin, Texas5
Historical geographies of Korea's incorporation: The rise of underdeveloped and modernized colonial port cities4
Critical Geography's nature problem and the Lefebvrian ecological dialectic4
Where military and fluvial geographies disastrously conjoined: The Huayuankou flood of 1938–1947 during the Sino-Japanese war4
Map making as memory practice: The historical geography of East European shtetls as expressed in Jewish yizker bikher4
Dutch inspiration for an engaged pluralist historiography of geography4
After the fall, where?: Relocating the Colston statue in Bristol, from 2020 to imaginary futures4
Timber, money, and shelter: The promotion of private tree planting in New Zealand during the 1920s4
The spatial logic of health: Managing waste, water and infrastructure in later medieval Bologna4
Where is the past? Time in historical geography3
Fenced open-fields in mixed-farming systems: spatial organisation and cooperation in southern Sweden during the seventeenth century3
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The making of Atlas Maritimus (1728): A shift towards commercial geography3
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Exhibition review: ‘Classroom photographic journeys,’ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, U.K.3
Tourists and meteorologists in the Italian Riviera: The Journal de Bordighera (1883–1935) as a source for the study of the local climate3
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The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea2
Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–18682
Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography2
Traditional environmental knowledge and transport efficiency of a communal canal network, Tafilalt oasis, Morocco: A historical GIS analytics perspective2
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Obituary: Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–20222
Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal ‘Asqālan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE2
Engineering indigenous dispossession and plantation slavery in the Southeast Gulf coast2
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Obituary: Cole Harris2
Anticipatory historical geographies of violence: Imagining, mapping, and integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state, 1866–19392
‘An aid to loveliness’: lavender, femininity and the affective economy of English beauty2
Diversifying the historical geography of exploration: Subaltern body work on British-led expeditions c.1850–19141
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Historical geographies of a Damascan population crisis: Jawlān and Ḥawrān in the late Mamluk - early Ottoman periods1
Where amenity and modernity collided: The Lake District national park and West Cumberland's atomic coast1
From sacred place to outer space: Collective creativity and the iconographies of mid-twentieth century English modernity in Guildford Cathedral's kneelers1
Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States1
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The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City1
Exhibition review: Visages de L'Exploration au XIXe siècle: Du mythe à l'histoire at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France1
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The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland1
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward1
A retrogressive approach to reconstructing the sixteenth-century forest landscapes of western Poland1
Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809)1
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An assemblage of urban water access: The geography of water marginalization in Amsterdam, 1690-18401
Recognising our collective labours: publishing JHG through a global pandemic1
Representing Freetown: Photographs, maps and postcards in the urban cartography of colonial Sierra Leone1
Geographical biobibliographies: Finding a niche1
Overcoming the crisis: Social and ecological impacts of the 17th and 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) and its surrounding area1
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Surviving the agricultural periphery: Climatic resilience and livestock production in pre-industrial central Scandinavia1
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Fieldwork nearby and far away: Student-geographers and the expanded field in the history of geography1
Conservation policies, scientific research and the production of Lake Pátzcuaro's naturecultures in Postrevolutionary México (1920–1940)1
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Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world: Nature conservation and tourism in Swedish national parks1
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Wastelanding Arabia: America's ‘Garden of Eden’ in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia1
Howardena Pindell's ‘A New Language’ Exhibition, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge1
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Confederacy, colonialism, controversy: How history serves the present in the Alabama Department of Archives and History1
Why the history and philosophy of geography matter: Louise Michel's radical, anticolonial, and pluralist geographies1
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On the plurality of words: The portmanteau word of geosophy and its persistence in the disciplinary baggage of geography1
‘Not a true cyclone’: Colonial officials' discursive tactics and responses to the 1952 cyclone in Southern Province and intra-territorial competition in Tanganyika1
Habitability as a historical category for interpreting the Anthropocene1
Place and displacement: Historical geographies of Israel's largest landfill1
Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction1
The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff's Great Historical Rivers: anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity1
Archiving and the aspirational politics of self-determination: Non-state claims to legitimacy amongst the Nagas in Northeast India0
Adriano Balbi and the definition of oceans, seas and ‘Open Mediterraneans’: The dialogue between geography and cartography with Evangelista Azzi0
Land reform catalysts of capitalism and communism: 150 years of agricultural change in Romania0
Struggling for bread, policing the streets: Urban public (dis)order and control of resources in post-war Spain (1939–1948)0
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Polish geography and Polish geographers under Nazi occupation0
Coal, state, and society: Resource-making and state formation in early republican Turkey0
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The symbolic power of the world's first circumnavigation: An approach from political communication0
A finer resolution for historical residential segregation: Geocoding and analyzing the population of 1860 Washington, D.C.0
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Tales from the dirt: Post-anthropocentric perspectives on Brazil's past0
Where do we go from here? Reflections on the idea of progress in the history of geography0
The art of earth-building: Placing relief models in the culture of modern geography in Britain0
‘The uses of biography’: Life writing and geography0
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How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war0
Cartographic reinterpretation of Central and Eastern Europe in the 16th century0
Spatial dimensions of religious practice in multi-confessional Eastern Europe, circa 1760–18200
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Documentation, decentralisation, worldmaking: Amnesty International's Sierra Leone section, 1980s–1990s0
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David Lowenthal's Archipelagic and Transatlantic Landscapes: His Public and Scholarly Heritage, Kenneth R. Olwig (Ed.). Routledge, London (2023), 110 pages, £108 hardback0
Obituary: P. Thankappan Nair (1933–2024)0
Mediterranean islands in Ptolemy's Geography: Mapping seas through geometrization0
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Conversations in geography: Journeying through four decades of history and philosophy of geography in the United Kingdom0
An Ethiopian imperial town: The forgotten historical geographies of ʾAmba Čara0
Nature protection in the Polish-Slovakian borderland during the 20th century0
Statues that must stand not fall: The material agency of anarchism in the marble monuments of Carrara, Italy0
Securing the boundaries of wilderness in northern Alaska, 1892–19500
From edenic island to endemic park: A historical political ecology of environmental degradation narratives on Réunion (West Indian Ocean)0
Traffic logic, state strategies and free speech in an urban park: The Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme, London, 1955–19620
Contesting monuments, challenging narratives: Divergent approaches to dealing with the colonial past and its legacies in Lisbon, Portugal0
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Rumors of War: Towards the unsettling of the Confederate monumental landscape0
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The Yellowstone as the longest undammed river in the contiguous United States: An environmental historical geography of a mythic landscape0
Reexamining reclamation: A comparative analysis of agricultural transformation in nineteenth century Sweden0
Handbills, rumours, and blue cockades: Communication during the 1780 Gordon Riots0
‘An indispensable aid’: Urban mobility, networks and the guidebook in Bristol, 1900–19300
Historical geographies of grid city development: Mandalay from Burma to Myanmar0
Situating knowledges, making kin and telling stories: Geographical encounters with Donna J Haraway0
‘An example to all of Christendom’ – Crime and social control in the Danish Island Parish of Drejø c. 1700-19000
Settlement expansion influenced by socio-cultural changes in western Hunan mountainous areas of China during the eighteenth century0
The forgotten middle Silk Road: Historical caravan route geographies between Mongolia and Tibet0
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How geographic thought happens: The autobiography of a mutable mobile0
The lordscape: Mapping seigneurial jurisdictions in the late-medieval Low Countries0
Redefining the Soviet krayevedeniye: The role of spatial science in the Soviet system of knowledge production0
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German colonial geography as a racial-Völkish reordering project beyond the East: National Socialism and the colonial writings of geographer Oskar Schmieder0
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America's lost National Monuments0
Necroreverence of Soviet cemeteries in Central Europe0
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Lucky Valley: A roundtable0
Cartographic knowledge, colonialized-colonizer spaces: Egyptian maps of Harar, 1875–18850
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Revising historical geography reviews0
From incommensurability to ubiquity: an energy history of geographic thought0
What Have We Here? Re-discovering colonialism at the British Museum0
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Despotic dominion and union organizing: Law, property, and the historical geography of class struggle in California agribusiness0
Chinese elites, hill stations and contested racial discrimination in interwar colonial Malaya and the Philippines0
To reserve or not to reserve: the battle over forest conservation in the Gold Coast, 1889–19270
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Contentious heritage spaces in post-communist Bulgaria: Contesting two monuments in Sofia0
‘Who could have expected such a disaster?’ How responses to the 1892 cyclone determined institutional trajectories of vulnerability in Mauritius0
Heritage assemblages, maintenance and futures: Stories of entanglement on Hampstead Heath, London0
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Calling Nikkei to Empire: Diaspora and trans/nationalism in the redevelopment of historic Little Tokyo0
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Sacred squares? A non-representational study of James Smetham's (1821–1889) everyday artistic experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality0
Tiny traces: African & Asian children at London's Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, London0
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Framing the Trucial Coast's tribes: Shifting notions of borders and imperial influence before the United Arab Emirates0
WITHDRAWN: American Imperial Pastoral: The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines, Rebecca Tinio McKenna. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2017). 272 pp US$45 hardcover0
Reflections on the first decade of the HPGRG undergraduate dissertation prize: The geography and politics of reward0
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Guarding the colonial woodlands: A genealogy of forest conservation discourses in late Bourbon's period in new Spain (Mexico)0
“A new power: Photography in Britain, 1800–1850” 1 February – 7 May 2023 ST Lee Gallery, Bodleian Weston Library, Oxford0
Mapping Europe in war and peace, 1915–1919: B. C. Wallis and the 1919 Peoples of Austria-Hungary geographical handbook and atlas0
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Heating France with nuclear power: Alternative heat politics and competing nuclear regimes during the 1970s0
Landscapes on the move: The travel journals of Celia Fiennes (1685-c.1712)0
Environmentalism in the Nineteenth Century: Interdisciplinary workshop, hosted online by the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International, 26 April 20230
Spaces of occupation: Colonial enclosure and confinement in British Malaya0
The poetics of geographical knowledge: For a genealogy of geographical aesthetics in history and philosophy of geography0
‘Let us conquer space’: Visual thinking as nation building in the early United States0
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A forgotten chapter in Egyptology: Sir John Gardner Wilkinson's investigations into a dynamic Nile0
Neither boundaries nor frontiers: The multi-layered frontier system of colonial British India and its post-colonial aftermaths0
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Negotiating Danish identity with(in) Copenhagen's postcolonial landscape of commemoration0
An axis, not a line of division: Cooperative planning and development on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1960s0
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Synoptic subjects? The Scope and methods of philosophy, geography and anthropology0
Imperial projections: The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp and the magic lantern0
Moving statues: Monuments to empire from London's Waterloo Place to the Maidan in Calcutta0
Assembling humanitarianism in the Cold War: The role of the Red Cross in the Bay of Pigs prisoner exchange0
Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain, Corinne Fowler. Allen Lane, London (2024), 432 pages, £25.00 hardback0
Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s0
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The magic lantern in Europe, Whipple Library and museum exhibition0
Somewhere downstairs: Re-animating a departmental geography collection0
‘Rooted Beings’, Wellcome Collection, London, 20220
Mapping the liquid territories of the Danube Delta (Romania): The atlases of the European Commission of the Danube0
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The lifeworld of Elizabeth Symons: family biography and Atlantic geographies in the eighteenth century0
Obituary: Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, 1928–20230
The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north: Cold War vernacular collecting and mining uranium, and its legacies0
Commemorating Picton in Wales and Trinidad: Colonial legacies and the production of memorial publics0
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Tracing the shores of empire: Imperial visuality on the Chinese coast in the late-Qing era0
Russian views of the unknown coast: Shvetsov's accounts of the Oregon and northern California coastline during the sea otter trade, 1808-090
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Imagining imperial frontiers: Photography-as-cartography in the mapping of eastern Africa0
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Afterword: Method, voice and politics in the history and philosophy of geography0
British interwar airspace in the Middle East: The forgotten airport of Lydda0
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Ephemeral climates: Plato's geographic myths and the phenomenological nature of climate and its changes0
Geography’s relevance debates and new forms of scholar policy activism0
Of homelands and global Blackness, or a trans-Atlantic tale of Caribbean relationalities: A geographic manifesto for change0
‘Aircraft and pencraft’: Between tradition and modernity in arctic varsity exploration0
An unsettling re-composition: Istanbul's lost Armenian April 11 Memorial0
Guns, goons, and the waterfront priest: Remaking Manila's anti-communist docks in 19500
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Displaying encounters: Jaime Cortesão’s São Paulo exhibition and indigenous knowledge in Brazilian history0
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Memorial as aegis: Colonial sovereignty and the unmaking of the Kanpur Memorial Well Monument0
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A cartography of al-Andalus’ landscape: Mapping settlements of Muslim agricultural colonization in Europe applying GIS techniques0
A geography of repression: The first years of the fascist Special Tribunal in Italy, 1926–19280
'Almost a Statesman': East Central Europe's geography experts and the Paris Peace Conference0
Reconstructing of historical land cover based on contemporary cartographical materials0
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The ‘gift of the new world’: Retelling the trajectories of black Locust in France0
Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 18950
The historical geography of an idea: Sustainable development in Latin America, 1972–20220
Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea0
Animating historical resource geographies: Encountering the guitar's North American material traces0
Burgenland or West-Hungary: The aspirations and limits of Austrian and Hungarian geography, 1918–19380
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