Historical Geography Of Europe Research Articles

Networks, narratives and territory in anthropological race classification: towards a more comprehensive historical geography of Europe’s culture

This article aims to integrate discourse analysis of politically instrumental imagined identity geographies with the relational and territorial geography of the communities of praxis and interpretation that produce them. My case study is the international community of nationalist scientists who classified Europe's biological races in the 1820s-1940s. I draw on network analysis, relational geography, historical sociology and the historical turn to problematize empirically how spatial patterns of this community's shifting disciplinary and political coalitions, communication networks and power relations emerged, were structured, persisted, changed, interacted and disappeared. I focus especially on core-periphery relations. I argue that if local historical spatial patterns affect those of later phenomena, geographies like that of European integration should be understood in the context of Europe's complex historical cultural geography. Unlike discourse deconstruction alone, this complementary relational de-essentialization of geography can identify large-scale, enduring associations of cultural patterns as well as cultural flux and ambiguity.

An Historical Geography of Europe

List of Contributors 1. The Human Geography of Europe: A Prehistoric Perspective 2. The Classical World 3. The Socio-Political Map of Europe, 400-1500 4. Rural Settlement in Europe, 400-1500 5. Towns and Trade, 400-1500 6. Geographical Knowledge and the Expansion of the European World After 1490 7. The Changing Political Map: Geography, Geopolitics, and the Idea of Europe since 1500 8. Changes in Population and Society 1500 to the Present 9. The Changing Cultural Geography of Europe since 1500 10. Rural Europe since 1500: Areas of Innovation and Change 11. Rural Europe since 1500: Areas of Retardation and Tradition 12. Industrial Change 1500-1740 and the Problem of Proto-Industrialization 13. Industrialization 1740 to the Present 14. The Urbanisation of Europe since 1500 15. Changing Patterns of Trade and Interaction since 1500 16. Towards an Environmental History of Europe Index

An Historical Geography of Europe

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An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800-1914. N. J. G. Pounds

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsAn Historical Geography of Europe, 1800-1914. N. J. G. Pounds M. C. ClearyM. C. Cleary Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 61, Number 3Sep., 1989 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/468306 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1989 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800-1914

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800-1914

An Historical Geography of Europe 1800-1914

An Historical Geography of Europe 1800-1914

An Historical Geography of Europe 1800-1914

An Historical Geography of Europe 1800-1914

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800-1914.

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800-1914.

Early Industrialization in Europe: Concepts and Problems

industrialization'. Both of the major accounts in English of the historical geography of early modern and modern Europe (C. T. Smith's An Historical Geography of Western Europe before 1800 and N. J. G. Pounds's An Historical Geography of Europe 1500-1840) contain whole chapters on mining and manufacturing in this critical period. The more specialized regional and national monographs, such as A. M. Lambert's The Making of the Dutch Landscape, H. D. Clout's Themes in the Historical Geography of France and Agriculture in France on the Eve ofthe Railway Age, provide evidence for and maps of the widespread occurrence of rural and urban industries. At the sub-continental scale or level of description and analysis it is difficult, if not impossible, to focus on the finer details of the interactions of social reproduction and industrial production processes, that is at sub-regional, local and even household levels. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the explanation in such larger-scale accounts tends to focus on resource bases, environmental influences (via agricultural systems), available technology, and to make fairly general references to markets, although a tighter and more overt conceptual framework could be employed, notwithstanding the bewildering complexity of types of industrial activity and organization to be found in 'pre-industrial' Europe. The question of scale (which should not need stressing to geographers) is of paramount importance for a fuller understanding of the nature of industrial pursuits in pre-industrial Europe, and needs to accommodate processes operating over a whole range of scales, from very small to very large, from the daily time-budgets and seasonal employment rhythms of peasant and artisanal households to the concept of the articulation of large-scale capital movements and influences at the level of the 'world economy'. Human and historical geographers on the whole have been reluctant to grasp this problem, and the corresponding recognition that hierarchies or nests of scales are involved. Most recent work on the theory and reality of early industrial activity in Europe has been by social and economic historians attempting to understand a major aspect of early modern and modern Europe, namely, the process of what (since 1972) -* Professor R. A. Butlin is Dean of the School of Human and Environmental Studies, University of Technology, Loughborough, LE11 3TU. This paper was delivered at a Technical Meeting held on 11 February 1985 in the Society's House, with Professor R. Lawton in the Chair.

Historical Geography in Britain, 1920-1980: Continuity and Change

Early use of the term 'historical geography'; the impact of the 'new geography' of the 1920s and 1930s; pattern versus process; the exploration of sources, 1940-60; unforeseen contributions; the quantitative revolution; the variety of ideologies; the future. I am not sure when the term 'historical geography' was first used. One early example comes from 1846 when it appeared in the title of Karl von Spruner's pioneer historical atlas.' In this context it implied concern with changes in political boundaries and with the varying extent of states and provinces; and this usage has continued among some people up to the present day. But before the end of the century the term was also used to indicate concern with the influence of geography upon history. In 1894 appeared what may possibly be the most remarkable book ever to include the term in its title--George Adam Smith's The historical geography of the Holy Land: it has run into twenty-five editions, with a reprint as recently as 1973.2 Other notions also found shelter under the umbrella of the term, but the two main ideas current by the early decades of this century were changing frontiers and geographical influences. This was the kind of historical geography I encountered when I went up to Cambridge in 1925 to read geography. I attended the classes of Mr B. L. Manning who had become a lecturer in Geography in 1921. That he was a young historian was nothing unusual. Geographers like P. M. Roxby, J. N. L. Baker and W. G. East started with degrees in history. Manning's heart, however, was in ecclesiastical history, and he resigned his post in 1930 to become a lecturer in the History Faculty. In the meantime, his lectures to us were of the kind that has been called 'an historian's historical geography'.3 We began with Ancient Greece, then went on to the Roman Empire and so to the Byzantine Empire. We continued with the territorial evolution of France, with feudal Germany, with the rise of Prussia, with the many states of Italy before 1870, with Spain and Portugal, and with the development of Muscovy into Russia. We then embarked upon the expansion of Europe overseas. Our reading at this time included E. A. Freeman's The historical geography of Europe (then in its third edition) which dealt with changing political boundaries. I recall hours spent in disentangling the various connotations of the name Burgundy-the kingdoms, the duchies, the county, the imperial Kreis or 'circle' of later times; little wonder that Freeman wrote: 'no name in geography has so often shifted its place and meaning'. An essential part of our equipment was an historical atlas, and so I acquired W. R. Shepherd's Historical atlas (also in its third edition). One book that made a great impact on us was Lucien Febvre's A geographical introduction to history which appeared in English in 1925.4 Trans. Inst. Br. Geogr. N.S. 8: 421-28 (1983) Printed in Great Britain This content downloaded from 157.55.39.17 on Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:40:02 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840

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Book reviewed in this article: Geography and Geographers: Anglo‐American Human Geography since 1945. K. J. Johriston. Strukturierung eines Verkehrsnetzes. Christoph Leiistrionn “The Haitian Problem”: Illegal Migration to the Bahamas. Dir ww I. Mur.shdl. The History of Topographical Maps: Symbols, Pictures and Surveys. P. D. A. Harvey. Geography and the Urban Environment. Volume III, Progress in Research and Applications. D. T. Herbert iind R. J. Johnston (Eds.) The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Beginnings to Pennsylvania Station. Crrrl W. Conilit. Man and Environmental Processes. K. J. Gregory und D. E. Wulling (Eds.). A River of Diamonds: An Alluvial History of the Lower Vaal Basin, South Africa. David M. Helgren. Geomorphological Processes. E. Drrhvshire, K. J. Gregorv, and J. R. Hails. Chemical Foundations: The Alkali Industry in Britain to 1926. Kenneth Wnrren. The Development of the U.S. Urban System. Volume I. Concepts, Structure, Regional Shifts. Edgar S. Dunn, Jr. Population Growth and Urban Systems Development: A Case Study. G. A. van der Knaap. Planning Industrial Development. David F. Walker (Ed.). Center and Periphery: Spatial Variation in Politics. Jean Gottmann (Ed.). An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500–1840. N. J. G. pounds.

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840.

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840.

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840. N. J. G. Pounds

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsAn Historical Geography of Europe, 1500-1840. N. J. G. Pounds Jan de VriesJan de Vries Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 53, Number 1Mar., 1981 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/242246 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1981 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

An Historical Geography of Europe 450 BC-AD 1330. N. J. G. Pounds

<i>An Historical Geography of Europe 450 BC-AD 1330</i>. N. J. G. Pounds

An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330

An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330

An Historical Geography of Europe, 450 BC-AD 1330

An Historical Geography of Europe, 450 BC-AD 1330