Free Books: Historical Geography (PDF)

Free Books: Historical Geography (PDF)

In the first of three reports outlining the current state of historical geography, I review recently published work from three research themes: the geographic imagination (maps and cartography), geographies of knowledge, and society-nature geographies. I argue that these themes build upon important and dynamic, or vital, traditions within the subfield.

Over the last two decades the divisive sparringthat had once divided historical geography, aswith human geography more generally, hasfaded to such a degree that students of the disci-pline today probably wonder what all the fusswas about. In the wake remains a healthy sub-field seemingly content with its heterogeneity.Historical geographers seem satisfied to workin thematic niches that intersect with, or derivetheoretical inspiration from, other disciplines.We are much less interested in pursuing subfieldorthodoxy or proffering the cliche´‘unityindiversity’ than we are in reshaping durable tra-ditions by refining questions, historicizing geo-graphic knowledge, and establishing dialogueswith like-minded scholars. In this sense histori-cal geographers are pushing forward vital tradi-tions, but are not necessarily making a big pointabout doing so or insisting that others followtheir lead. Much of the recent scholarship in his-torical geography bears this out. In the first ofthree reports outlining the current state of thesubfield, I review published work from three

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