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Too High and Too Steep

Reshaping Seattle’s Topography

By David B. Williams

Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to accommodate their changing visions. In...

East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

By Jean W. Sedlar

Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a...

How to Read the American West

A Field Guide

By William Wyckoff. Foreword by William Cronon

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in How to Read the American...

The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918

By Piotr S. Wandycz

The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 comprehensively covers an important, complex, and controversial period in the history of Poland and East Central Europe, beginning in 1795 when the remnanst of the Polish Commonwealth were distributed...

East Central Europe between the Two World Wars

By Joseph Rothschild

East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution to...

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804

By Peter F. Sugar

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early history of the Ottomans and...

The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795

By Daniel Z. Stone

For four centuries, the Polish–Lithuanian state encompassed a major geographic region comparable to present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania. Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil...

Seattle Geographies

By Michael P. Brown, Richard Morrill

Seattle is located on the northwest edge of the continental United States, flanked by two mountain ranges and set on the calm shores of Puget Sound. It is remote from the country's hub but a...

Historical Atlas of the Arctic

By Derek Hayes

The vast empty spaces of the Poles were the last frontier to be assailed by explorers intent on achieving a geographical goal--the North Pole was finally reached in 1909. But long before that men sailed...

Unbuilt Environments

Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia

By Jonathan Peyton

In the latter half of the twentieth century, industrial pioneers came to British Columbia with grand plans for resource development projects, many of which never materialized. Unbuilt Environments argues that these kinds of projects have...

Public Interest, Private Property

Law and Planning Policy in Canada

By Anneke Smit, Marcia Valiante

When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community’s interest prevail over the rights of private property owners? Public Interest, Private Property addresses this question at a time...

The Proposal Economy

Neoliberal Citizenship in "Ontario's Most Historic Town"

By Pamela Stern and Peter V. Hall

In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province's "Most Historic Town." This honour, though purely symbolic, came as Cobalters were also applying for and winning federal and...

Home Is the Hunter

The James Bay Cree and Their Land

By Hans M. Carlson

The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense change for the...

Second Growth

Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia

By Sean Markey, John Pierce, Mark Roseland, and Kelly Vodden

Broader political and economic changes are dramatically reshaping rural and small-town communities in British Columbia and across Canada. Increasingly, however, much of the responsibility for community-based prosperity and survival is falling to communities themselves.

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Four Centuries of Special Geography

An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published in English before 1888

By O. F. G. Sitwell

Demographic Projection Techniques for Regions and Smaller Areas

A Primer

By H. Craig Davis