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28 results in Regional geography

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Inventing the modern region
  • Basque identity and the French nation-state
  • Talitha Ilacqua
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2026
  • This book studies the French Basque country’s process of acquisition of a stereotypical regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It maintains that, albeit originating in pre-‘modern’ customs, the standardised and clichéd character of Basque identity, as it emerged in the nineteenth century, was a product of the ‘modern’ age of nationalism. The book identifies the turning point for the creation of the ‘modern’ region in the French Revolution of 1789 that replaced privilege with language as the marker of identity of provincial France. The shift from privilege to ‘culture’ prompted local elites to reconceptualise the position of their locality within the new nation-state. The book contributes to a growing body of literature that regards Europe’s regional identities in the age of nationalism as invented ‘imagined communities’ which became an essential and validating aspect of nation-building. Since Basque-speaking communities lived in both French and Spanish territory, the invention of the Basque region had paradoxical consequences. On the one hand, it strengthened the cultural unity of the French and Spanish Basque provinces, which, in turn, challenged the authority of the central state. On the other, regional culture, like the German Heimaten, favoured the integration of the Basque provinces into the French nation-state. Thus, the story of Basque region-building in the age of French nationalism is revealing of the oxymoronic relationship between Jacobin centralisation and omnipresent regionalism that has defined the dominant idea of France since 1789.

Youth in the Middle Ages

Studies in Medievalism XVI

Arthurian Literature
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    17 December 2009
  • Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. This book delivers some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.

Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military
  • Edited by Laurie W. Rush
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 October 2010
  • Timely essays from experienced contributors examine the damage recent conflict has caused to cultural heritage, and how it may best be safeguarded in future.

Kyiv, Ukraine
  • The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013–2014
  • Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    10 December 2020
    Print publication:
    11 July 2014
  • The unrest and violence in Ukraine shocked the world, and the region's long-term future remains troublingly uncertain. Focusing on the difficulty of Kiev's transition from socialism to market democracy, this book demonstrates how Ukraine reached this turbulent point. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky delves deeply into the changing social geography of the city, recent urban development, and critical problems such as official corruption, inequality, sex tourism, and the heedless destruction of the city's historical architecture all difficulties that have contributed incrementally to Ukrainian citizens' anger against their government. This thoroughly revised edition offers the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened and what is likely still to come in Ukraine.

Strategic Directions of Tourism Development
  • The Cases of Poland and Slovakia - Scientific Monograph
  • Edited by Małgorzata Bednarczyk, Andrej Malachovský, Ewa Wszendybył-Skulska
  • Published by:
    Jagiellonian University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2018
    Print publication:
    31 December 2012
  • The monograph Strategic directions of tourism development. The cases of Poland and Slovakia presents:- the important tasks in implementing tourism policy in the EU faced by each European country,- the differences in approach to tourism policy implementation in two selected European countries, despite the presence of the EU three-level system of tourism management in both of the chosen countries,- the complexity and difficulty of the systematic monitoring process of national and regional tourism products competitiveness in the context of creating the European tourist product.

Portugal: A Traveller's History
  • Harold Livermore
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2017
    Print publication:
    11 November 2004
  • Portugal, the 'ancient ally', is a country easily accessible, with an enviable climate, welcoming inhabitants and famous beaches. English and Spanish apart, Portuguese is more widely spoken than any other European tongue. This historical guide draws on personal experiences ranging from a residence of three years to regular visits since 1936. It combines introductory chapters on eight centuries of nationhood, and sections on the Roman and Islamic past, architecture, painting, music and birds, with visits to the great cities of Lisbon and Oporto, and to the country's varied regions. The author's aim is not merely to describe; rather to account for the emergence of what the visitor may expect to see. He avoids jargon, preferring clarity and moderation - although permitting himself an occasional expression of saudade (the nostalgia for Portugal which haunts all who have loved this land).
    Harold Livermore studied in Portugal in 1937 and taught there, in Cambridge and in Canada. He was educational director of the Luso-Brazilian Council in London and is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and of the Portuguese Academy of History. His first 'History of Portugal' was awarded the CamSes Prize and was followed by a 'New History' and a 'Shorter History'. He has also published a history of Spain and an account of the medieval origins of both countries. A selection of his articles, 'Essays on History and Literature', appeared in 2000.

The Malay Archipelago
  • The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
  • Volume 1
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
    First published in:
    1869
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost biologists. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace's acclaimed and highly influential account of extensive fieldwork he undertook in modern Indonesia, Malaysia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Wallace describes his travels around the island groups, depicting the unusual animals and insects he encountered and providing ethnographic descriptions of the indigenous peoples. Wallace's analysis of biogeographic patterns in Indonesia (later termed the Wallace Line) profoundly influenced contemporary and later evolutionary and geological thought concerning both Indonesia and other areas of the world where similar patterns were found. Volume 1 covers the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Economics of Agglomeration
  • Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization
  • 2nd edition
  • Masahisa Fujita, Jacques-François Thisse
  • Published online:
    05 August 2013
    Print publication:
    31 July 2013
  • Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural features, economic mechanisms that rely on the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs are more fundamental. This book is a study of the economic reasons for the existence of a large variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local. This second edition combines a comprehensive analysis of the fundamentals of spatial economics and an in-depth discussion of the most recent theoretical developments in new economic geography and urban economics. It aims to highlight several of the major economic trends observed in modern societies. The first edition was the winner of the 2004 William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science.

Circular Migration in Zimbabwe and Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Deborah Potts
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of declining urban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. Deborah Potts is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department of King's College London. She works in the broad research field of urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly southern Africa and has conducted research on these themes in Harare in Zimbabwe since 1985. South Africa: University of Cape Town Press (pbk).

Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City
  • Justin Corfield
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    15 April 2013
  • Offering a concise overview of Ho Chi Minh City’s history and development, the 'Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City' presents a comprehensive historical survey of the city in the form of an alphabetical list of keywords and names, with accompanying definitions. Both well-researched and authoritative, the volume draws upon a wide range of modern sources, and contains an introductory essay about the city, a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, photographs and appendixes of supplemental information.

Coastal Management in Australia
  • Nick Harvey, Brian Caton
  • Published by:
    The University of Adelaide Press
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    31 December 2010
  • Coastal Management in Australia introduces the background to the various coastal management systems operating in Australia and illustrates these with 'real world' examples from the different states and territories.

The Malay Archipelago
  • The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
  • Volume 2
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
    First published in:
    1869
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost biologists. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace's acclaimed and highly influential account of extensive fieldwork he undertook in modern Indonesia, Malaysia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. Wallace describes his travels around the island groups, depicting the unusual animals and insects he encountered and providing ethnographic descriptions of the indigenous peoples. Wallace's analysis of biogeographic patterns in Indonesia (later termed the Wallace Line) profoundly influenced contemporary and later evolutionary and geological thought concerning both Indonesia and other areas of the world where similar patterns were found. Volume 2 covers the Molucca Islands and New Guinea.

The Urban Mosaic
  • Towards a Theory of Residential Differentiation
  • Duncan Timms
  • Published online:
    05 January 2012
    Print publication:
    02 March 1971
  • The concept of the city as a mosaic of social worlds has achieved wide currency: the residential differentiation of the urban population provides the matrix for much human activity. In this detailed study, the author demonstrates that much of the manifold variation in the social characteristics of populations living in different parts of the city may be summarized in terms of a small number of factors relating to social rank, style of life preferences and ethnicity. Residential and social differentiation are seen as intimately connected. At the individual level, it is suggested that questions relating to social rank, style of life, and ethnicity provide the main framework for the choice of residential location. At the societal level, it is suggested that the variations in the inter-relationship of the basic differentiating factors are a function of modernization. Empirical material is drawn from an number of Australian cities.

Through the Yang-tse Gorges
  • Or, Trade and Travel in Western China
  • Archibald John Little
  • Published online:
    05 July 2011
    Print publication:
    31 October 2010
    First published in:
    1888
  • Through the Yang-tse Gorges is Archibald Little's diary (published in London in 1888) of his journey up the Yangtze River from Shanghai to Chongqing by a native junk boat in 1883. Little strongly advocated the introduction of steam travel on the upper part of the river between Yichang and Chongqing, a port open to Western trade. The upper Yangtze was full of gorges and rapids which made travel treacherous; Little's journey by junk boat took a month, whereas the journey by steamship would have taken only 36 hours. He was repeatedly rebuffed in his attempts to introduce steam travel to the upper Yangtze by the Chinese government, which he accused of standing in the way of modernisation. He successfully introduced a steamship on the upper Yangtze river in 1898. Several other books by Little and by his intrepid wife are also reissued in this series.

My Diary in a Chinese Farm
  • Alicia E. Neva Little
  • Published online:
    01 June 2011
    Print publication:
    10 June 2010
    First published in:
    1898
  • Published in Tokyo in 1894, Mrs Little's diary of her summer stay at a local farmhouse in the Chinese interior near Chongqing provides a first-hand account of rural Chinese life in the nineteenth century from a European's perspective. Mrs Little was an accomplished author, having written numerous novels on women's social roles under her maiden name, Bewicke. In My Diary, she continues this theme of women's place in society. Her account also touches on the interactions between Christian missionaries and the local people. She was an active campaigner against the Chinese tradition of binding the feet of young girls, and helped to bring about its abolition. A limited run of only 500 copies of My Diary was originally printed. It contains 26 illustrations and is an invaluable historical source for studying rural life in nineteenth-century China.

The Duab of Turkestan
  • a Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels
  • W. Rickmer Rickmers
  • Published online:
    10 November 2010
    Print publication:
    26 August 2010
    First published in:
    1913
  • W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873–1965) was a German explorer and mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906. This book provides an account of his travels in the area he calls Turkestan, which incorporates modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, and was first published in 1913. The region, which contains the ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, had not been previously described in so much detail by a western European traveller. Rickmers includes accounts of both these historic cities as well as describing the social life of the indigenous people, with a comprehensive survey of the geography of the region. Richly illustrated with 207 maps and photographs, this volume provides an insight into the everyday life of the area before the upheavals of the Soviet era.

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492–1992
  • A Regional Geography
  • Bonham C. Richardson
  • Published online:
    10 November 2010
    Print publication:
    16 January 1992
  • This major textbook survey, first published in 1992, explains how the Caribbean's present geography is intimately tied to the past. The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonisation and recolonisation of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimised by natural hazards, soil erosion, over population and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to their external influences. No other single survey of the region provides equivalent breadth - ranging from aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic - or harnesses so effectively elements of the past to illuminate the present.

Across Yunnan
  • A Journey of Surprises
  • Archibald John Little
  • Edited by Alicia Little
  • Published online:
    05 October 2010
    Print publication:
    31 October 2010
    First published in:
    1910
  • Published posthumously in 1910, Archibald Little's memoir of his journey across the Yunnan Province in Southwest China was one of the first comprehensive accounts of the region to be published in English. Little, a skilled linguist, worked as a merchant in China for over fifty years and opened up the Upper Yangtze area to steam-powered commerce. He was well known for his intrepid travels into territories not yet explored by Westerners, and his record of this journey was originally published as a series of letters to the North China Herald. This book also contains Little's account of the building of the French Railway Line to Yunnan-Fu, which provided a trade route from India to the Upper Yangtze region. Across Yunnan was completed and edited by Little's wife after his death in 1908. The book includes a detailed map of the area and several photographs.

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