The H-HistGeog network is a forum for geographers, historians, and all others who have an interest in the intricate relationship between space and time.
Empty Spaces
A one-day conference at the Institute of Historical Research
Friday 10th April 2015
9:00-9:45
Registration and tea and coffee
9:45-10:00
Welcome Comments Courtney J. Campbell (IHR)
10:00-11:30
Panel One: Ruins (Chair: Caroline Nielsen UCL/IHR)
Carlos López Galviz (SAS)
Call for Papers
The Fourth Euroacademia International Conference
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe
24 – 26 April 2015
Including a visit to Auschwitz – Birkenau on 26th of April 2015
4* Metropolitan Hotel
Krakow, Poland
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 March 2015
Conference Description:
David Lambert. Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 318 pp. $40.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-226-07823-6; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-07806-9.
Reviewed by Julian Baker (University of Edinburgh)
Published on H-HistGeog (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Robert J. Mayhew
Mastering Trade, People, and Knowledge
David Moon. The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xx, 319 S. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-955643-4.
Reviewed by Nicholas B. Breyfogle (Department of History, The Ohio State University)
Published on H-HistGeog (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg
An Environmental History of the Russian Steppes
