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A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields.

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Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!

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Take a look at the issue’s contents below.

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
New review!

Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New article!

'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!

Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!

Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!

'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Vol. 89 is out!

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Take a look at the contents below 🧵

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October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
New article!

'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie

doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Rodrigo Escribano Roca on Derek S. Denman's 'Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.009
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!

'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!

'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001
October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!

'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!

'A different genealogy for twentieth-century ecological thought: Max Sorre's human ecology', by Dylan Simon.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Jahzeel Aguilera Lara on 'Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America', edited by Jennifer L. French.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.008
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New article!

'The Storyteller's legacy: Materiality, commemoration, and the geography of historical markers', by Yusik Choi & Alberto Giordano.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.006
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article:

'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New article!

'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!

'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New review:

@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New review!

Nokmedemla Lemtur on ‘Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds’, edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.012
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Maria E. Karssenberg on Clive Oppenheimer’s ‘Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes’.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.013
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Anthony Picón-Rodríguez on Edgardo Pérez’s ‘El Caribe Cimarrón y los corsarios de Cartagena en la época de la Independencia’.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.001
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Elizabeth Edwards on 'Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography', by Siobhan Angus.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.006
September 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Carsten-Andreas Schulz on 'Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics, and Practices', edited by Peder Roberts & Alejandra Mancilla.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.004
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!

Elizabeth Baigent on 'Monet and London: Views of the Thames', edited by Karen Serres with contributions from Frances Fowle and Jennifer A. Thompson.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.009
September 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM