In the first of three reports outlining the current state of historical geography, I review recently published work from three research themes: the geographic imagination (maps and cartography), geographies of knowledge, and society-nature geographies. I argue that these themes build upon important and dynamic, or vital, traditions within the subfield.
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Aguilar-RobledoM (2009) Contested terrain: The rise and decline of surveying in New Spain, 1500–1800. Journal of Latin American Geography8: 23–48.
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AkermanJRJrKarrow RW (eds) (2007) Maps: Finding our Place in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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AldermanDH (2010) Surrogation and the politics of remembering slavery in Savannah, Georgia (USA). Journal of Historical Geography36: 90–101.
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BarberPCarlucciA (eds) (2002) Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps. London: British Library.
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BarberPHarperT (2010) Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. London: The British Library.
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Barrera-OsorioA (2006) Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
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BartonGABennettBM (2010) Forestry as foreign policy: Anglo-Siamese relations and the origins of Britain’s informal empire in the teak forests of northern Siam, 1883–1925. Itinerario34: 65–86.
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BeamerBKDuarteaTK (2009) I palapala no ia aina – documenting the Hawaiian Kingdom: A colonial venture?Journal of Historical Geography35: 66–86.
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BiehlerDD (2010) Flies, manure, and window screens: Medical entomology and environmental reform in early-twentieth-century US cities. Journal of Historical Geography36: 68–78.
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BleichmarDVosPDHuffineKSheehanK (eds) (2009) Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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BosseD (2011) Matthew Clark and the beginnings of chart publishing in the United States. Imago Mundi63: 22–38.
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BrannstromC (2010) Forests for cotton: Institutions and organizations in Brazil’s mid-twentieth-century cotton boom. Journal of Historical Geography36: 169–182.
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BrannstromCNeumanM (2009) Inventing the ‘Magic Valley’ of South Texas, 1905–1941. Geographical Review99: 123–145.
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BrücknerM (2006) The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
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BrücknerM (ed.) (2011) Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
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BrücknerMHsuHL (eds) (2007) American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production 1500–1900. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press.
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BurkeEIII (2009) The transformation of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 B.C.E.–2000 C.E. In: BurkeE IIIPomeranzK (eds) The Environment and World History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 81–117.
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BurkeE IIIPomeranzK (eds) (2009) The Environment and World History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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CareyM (2009) Latin American environmental history: Current trends, interdisciplinary insights, and future directions. Environmental History14: 221–252.
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CarneyJARosomoffRN (2010) In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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CarreraMM (2011) Traveling From New Spain to Mexico: Mapping the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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CorreiaD (2009) Making destiny manifest: United States territorial expansion and the dispossession of two Mexican property claims in New Mexico, 1824–1899. Journal of Historical Geography35: 87–103.
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CowieH (2011) A Creole in Paris and a Spaniard in Paraguay: Geographies of natural history in the Hispanic world (1750–1808). Journal of Latin American Geography10: 175–197.
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CraibRB (2004) Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
CraibRB (2010) The archive in the field: Document, discourse, and space in Mexico’s agrarian reform. Journal of Historical Geography36: 411–420.
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DandoCE (2010) ‘The map proves it’: Map use by the American Woman Suffrage Movement. Cartographica45: 221–240.
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DanielsS (2010) Putting maps in place. Journal of Historical Geography36: 473–480.
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DavidsonWV (2006) Atlas de Mapas Históricas de Honduras; Honduras, An Atlas of Historical Maps. Managua: Fundación Uno.
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DavisDK (2007) Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
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DavisDK (2009) Historical political ecology: On the importance of looking back to move forward. Geoforum40: 285–286.
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DePater B (2011) Conflicting images of the Zuider Zee around 1900: Nation-building and the struggle against water. Journal of Historical Geography37: 82–94.
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DreyfusP (2009) Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
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DriverFJonesL (2009) Hidden Histories of Exploration: Researching the RGS-IBG Collection. London: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
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DuvallCS (2009) A maroon legacy? Sketching African contributions to live fencing practices in early Spanish America. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography30: 232–247.
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DymJ (ed.) (2010) Mapeando patrias chicas y patrias grandes: Cartografía e historia Iberoamérica, siglos XVIII and XX. Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades12: 99 and 217. Available at: http://institucional.us.es/araucaria/nro24/nro24.htm.
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DymJOffenK (eds) (2011) Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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EdneyMH (2009a) The irony of imperial mapping. In: AkermanJR (ed.) The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 11–45.
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EdneyMH (2009b) The Anglophone toponyms associated with John Smith’s description and map of New England. Names: A Journal of Onomastics57: 189–207.
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EdneyMH (2010) Simon de Passe’s cartographic portrait of Captain John Smith and a New England (1616/1617). Word and Image26: 186–213.
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EdneyMH (2011) A cautionary historiography of ‘John Smith’s New England’. Cartographica46: 1–27.
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FleetCWithersCWJ (2010) Maps and map history using the Bartholomew Archive, National Library of Scotland. Imago Mundi62: 92–97.
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FrancavigliaRV (2005) Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press.
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GarcierR (2010) The placing of matter: Industrial water pollution and the construction of social order in nineteenth-century France. Journal of Historical Geography36: 132–142.
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GautreauP (2010) Rethinking the dynamics of woody vegetation in Uruguayan campos, 1800–2000. Journal of Historical Geography36: 194–204.
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GriffinCJ (2010) More-than-human histories and the failure of grand state schemes: Sylviculture in the New Forest, England. Cultural Geographies17: 451–472.
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GuptaSD (2009) Accessing nature: Agrarian change, forest laws and their impact on an Adivasi economy in colonial India. Conservation and Society7: 227–238.
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HarleyJB (2005) La Nueva Naturaleza de los Mapas. Ensayos Sobre la Historia de la Cartografía. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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HarleyJBLaxtonP (eds) (2001) The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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HarmonK (2009) The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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HastyW (2011) Piracy and the production of knowledge in the travels of William Dampier, c.1679–1688. Journal of Historical Geography37: 40–54.
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HayesD (2010) Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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HedleyPJBirdMIRobinsonRAJ (2010) Evolution of the Irrawaddy delta region since 1850. The Geographical Journal176: 138–149.
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HewittR (2011) Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey. London: Granta Books.
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HoldsworthDW (2003) Historical geography: New ways of imaging and seeing the past. Progress in Human Geography27: 486–493.
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HunterRSluyterA (2011) How incipient colonies create territory: The textual surveys of New Spain, 1520s–1620s. Journal of Historical Geography37. doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2011.01.005.
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HussainS (2010) Sports-hunting, fairness and colonial identity: Collaboration and subversion in the northwestern frontier region of the British Indian empire. Conservation and Society8: 112–126.
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IqbalI (2009) Fighting with a weed: Water hyacinth and the state in colonial Bengal, c.1910–1947. Environment and History15: 35–59.
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KeighrenIM (2010) Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge. London: I.B. Tauris.
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KerrRB (2010) Groundnuts as ‘economic crop’ or ‘wife of the home’ in Northern Nyasaland. Journal of Historical Geography36: 79–89.
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KirschS (2010) The Allison Commission and the national map: Towards a Republic of Knowledge in late nineteenth-century America. Journal of Historical Geography36: 29–42.
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LayJ-GChenY-WYapK-H (2010) Geographic reality versus imagination in Taiwan’s historical maps. Cartographic Journal47: 180–189.
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LivingstoneDN (2003) Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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LivingstoneDN (2010a) Cultural politics and the racial cartographies of human origins. Transactions of the British Institute of British Geographers35: 204–221.
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LivingstoneDN (2010b) Landscapes of knowledge. In: MeusburgerPLivingstoneDNJönsH (eds) Geographies of Science. Heidelberg: Springer, 3–22.
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LorimerJWhatmoreS (2009) After the ‘king of beasts': Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon. Journal of Historical Geography35: 668–689.
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MayhewRJ (2009) Historical geography 2007–2008: Foucault’s avatars – still in (the) Driver’s seat. Progress in Human Geography33: 387–397.
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MayhewRJ (2010a) Historical geography 2008–2009: Mundus alter et idem. Progress in Human Geography34: 243–253.
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MayhewRJ (2010b) Geography as the eye of Enlightenment historiography. Modern Intellectual History7: 611–627.
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MayhewRJ (2010c) Printing posterity: Editing Varenius and the construction of geography’s history. In: OgbornMWithersCWJ (eds) Geographies of the Book. Farnham: Ashgate, 157–187.
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MayhewRJ (2011) Historical geography 2009–2010: Geohistoriography, the forgotten Braudel and the place of nominalism. Progress in Human Geography35: 409–421.
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McNeillJR (2010) Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Medak-SaltzmanD (2010) Transnational indigenous exchange: Rethinking global interactions of indigenous peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. American Quarterly62: 591–615.
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