From the Editors

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From the Editors John Bauer, Christina Dando, and Michael Wise We are pleased to present the forty-ninth volume of Historical Geography, our fourth published with the University of Nebraska Press. As ever, our thanks go to our contributors, reviewers, and the members of our editorial board, as well as our colleagues at the Press and at the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. This volume features three research articles and twenty-two book reviews from scholars on five continents. The first article discusses the impact and legacy of Andrew Clark's classic The Invasion of New Zealand by Peoples, Plants, and Animals through analysis of book reviews and other appraisals of the work by historical geographers over the last half century. Ben Schuster's "Aerial Vision and Violence: The Beginning of Aerial Photography in Colombia (1920s)" shifts our attention to the early history of aerial photography and the Colombian state's use of the new technology for marking its national boundaries and for demographic surveillance, particularly of its Native communities. Finally, James Smith's "German Immigrant Labor in Baltimore on the Eve of the Civil War" attends to the roles played by ethnic communities in urban transitions associated with the shift from artisanal labor to industrialized mass production. We would like to express our gratitude in this volume to Briony McDonagh, who rotated off our editorial team earlier this year. McDonagh joined Historical Geography as coeditor in 2017, and her accomplishments included the recruitment of high-quality research articles and special issues produced by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Her vision to make Historical Geography representative of a more diverse and interdisciplinary set of approaches is another of her contributions that will continue to animate the work of our journal as we move forward. [End Page ix] As ever, we welcome new submissions to the journal. Information for potential authors is available on our Project Muse webpage (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/738) as well as our University of Nebraska Press portal (https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/journal/historical-geography/). We also encourage informal inquiries to our editorial team about potential articles and special issues that engage the field of historical geography defined in the broadest possible sense. John Bauer, Christina Dando, and Michael Wise, coeditors [End Page x] Copyright © 2023 Historical Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers