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This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artefacts.

This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical geography. This book explores the War¿s impact in more unexpected theatres, blurring the boundary between home and fighting fronts, investigating the experiences of the war among civilians and often over-looked combatants. The book also critically examines the politics of hindsight in the post-war period, and offers an historical geographical account of how the First World War has been memorialised within `official¿ spaces as well as many of the `alternative spaces¿ of commemoration that are often overlooked and undervalued.

This book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over time. The book explores the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their spa

This book traces the success, failure, survival and abandonment of land settlement initiatives in a variety of locations, environments, and political scales, from the late C19th to the early C21st.

''Hurry'' is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility, speed, rhythm, and time-space compression, but also with infrastructures, technologies, practices, and emotions associated with the experience of the ''mobilizing modern''. ''Hurry'' is not simply speed. It may result in congestion, slowing-down, or inaction in the face of over-stimulus. Speeding-up is often competitive: faster traffic on better roads made it harder for pedestrians to cross, or for horse-drawn vehicles and cyclists to share the carriageway with motorized vehicles. Focusing on the cultural and material manifestations of ''hurry'', the book''s contributors analyse the complexities, tensions, and contradictions inherent in the impulse to higher rates of circulation in modernizing cities. The collection includes, but also goes beyond, accounts of new forms of mobility (bicycles, buses, underground trains) and infrastructure (street layouts and surfaces, business exchanges, and hotels) to show how modernity''s ''architectures of hurry'' have been experienced, represented, and practised since the mid nineteenth century. Ten case studies explore different expressions of ''hurry'' across cities and urban regions in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and substantial introductory and concluding chapters situate ''hurry'' in the wider context of modernity and mobility studies and reflect on the future of ''hurry'' in an ever-accelerating world. This diverse collection will be relevant to researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of planning, cultural and historical geography, urban history, and urban sociology.

This book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over time. The book explores the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their spa

This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical geography.

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern western cities to explore the small-scale processes that have shaped these cities between c.1750-1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes.

This book traces the development of diverse British cultures of outer space, utilizing key geographical concepts such as landscape, place, and national identity.

This book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography. It offers perspectives from a wide range of contexts and national traditions that decenter the Anglo-centric discussions.

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of US colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space.

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the work of the plant collector, botanical illustrator, and naturalist, Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe, this book illustrates how natural history was practised and produced by a woman working in the tropics from 1897 to 1921.Drawing on the extensive and under-studied archive of private and official correspondence, diaries, sketchbooks, photographs, paintings, and plant lists of Wheeler-Cuffe, this book advances our conceptual understanding of the 'invisible' historical geographies underpinning scientific knowledge production, by focusing on the role of a female actor in the complex gendered setting of colonial Burma. Using a bio-geographical approach, this analysis reconceptualises female agency beyond authorship and publication, and stresses how Wheeler-Cuffe represents an instantiation of the occluded contribution of women to the historiography of natural history. This book highlights Wheeler-Cuffe's production of scientific knowledge about Burma in the context of her relationship, as a white Western woman, with local, indigenous actors and details her practice of fieldwork and its embodied geographies in different parts of Burma, while she maintained the domestic superstructure of a colonial wife.This book will be of interest to advance-level students and researchers in historical and cultural geography; the history of science; feminist geography; women and natural history; colonial Burma and imperialism; and botanical art and illustration.