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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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… and last but not least,

‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

16/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

15/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Humboldt’s geographical history: Oceans and Americas in Examen critique’, by Josefina Gómez-Mendoza.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.001

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

14/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘The Cartographic invention of Hong Kong: Alexander Dalrymple and the British colonisation of the Pearl River Estuary, 1646–1841’, by Maxime Decaudin.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

13/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Periodical geography and geographical correspondence in the Naval Chronicle (1799–1818)’, by Yannan Ding.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

12/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Tracing the shores of empire: Imperial visuality on the Chinese coast in the late-Qing era’, by Mimi Cheng.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.003

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

11/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868’, by Annabel Storr.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.008

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

10/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895’, by Daniel A. Finch-Race.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

9/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809)’, by Mirela Altic.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.001

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

8/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘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

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

7/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea’, by Marco Petrella & Matteo Proto.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.009

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

6/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Adriano Balbi and the definition of oceans, seas and “Open Mediterraneans”: The dialogue between geography and cartography with Evangelista Azzi’, by Arturo Gallia & Mirko Castaldi.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.07.011

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

5/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff’s Great Historical Rivers: Anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity’, by Federico Ferretti.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.007

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

4/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Mediterranean islands in Ptolemy’s Geography: Mapping seas through geometrization’, by Dmitry A. Shcheglov.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.004

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

3/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Introducing liquid worlds: Historical geographies and cartographies of the sea’, by special issue editors Federico Ferretti and André Reyes Novaes.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.005

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

2/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!

sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97

Take a look at the issue’s contents below.

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

1/16
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
...and last but not least, Maria E. Karssenberg reviews Clive Oppenheimer’s ‘Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes’: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.013

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Nokmedemla Lemtur reviews ‘Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds’, edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.012

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Anthony Picón-Rodríguez reviews Edgardo Pérez’s ‘El Caribe Cimarrón y los corsarios de Cartagena en la época de la Independencia’: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.001

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) reviews 'Monet and London: Views of the Thames', edited by Karen Serres with contributions from Frances Fowle and Jennifer A. Thompson: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.009

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM