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by geographers to explain history'. Its author, J. B. Mitchell, came down firmly on the side of geography: 'the historical geographer is a geographer first...

word that is believed to have been first used in 1540. Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field...

FBA, FRHistS (born 3 January 1946) is a historical geographer and demographer. He was professor of historical geography and demography at the University...

British historian, historical geographer and author who has worked for Sussex University since 2000. He was appointed Professor of Historical Geography in 2006...

the local Bekonscot model village as a teenager. He trained as a historical geographer, and in addition to broadcasting, he has curated museum exhibitions...

fresh, but by summer a drought of historical magnitude had rendered it much more brackish. The historical geographer Carville Earle, among others, holds...

chess player Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976), Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer Yohanan Alemanno (c. 1435–after 1504), Italian Jewish humanist philosopher...

1928 – 1 February 2006) was an English historian and geographer who served as a reader in historical geography in the University of Cambridge's Department...

compiled by Conder and Kitchener are still consulted by archaeologists and geographers working in the southern Levant; The survey itself effectively delineated...

Daraa Governorate, where early Byzantine ruins were found. Israeli historical geographer, Zev Vilnay, tentatively identified the town Golan with the Goblana...

topics. The Association of American Geographers was founded in 1904 and was renamed the American Association of Geographers in 2016 to better reflect the increasingly...

Peter Merriman is a British cultural geographer and historical geographer as well as a mobilities scholar. He was educated at the University of Nottingham...

or twice since then. However, with the exception of Mississippi, historical geographer Barry Vann shows that counties in the upland areas of the Appalachians...

Professor Miles Ogborn was selected as a Distinguished Historical Geographer by the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. With this award,...

Hermann Khristian Spate (30 March 1911 – 29 May 2000) was a London-born geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in...

regions have changed over time. D. W. Meinig, a historical geographer of America, describes many historical regions in his book The Shaping of America: A...

Ruth Kark (Hebrew: רות קרק; born 1941) is an Israeli historical geographer and professor of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor...

Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha Modern day Bihar. It was the fourth...

1920s, he found "no single Chinese name for Manchuria as a unit". Historical geographer Philippe Forêt concurred, noting that there is no word for Manchuria...

Michael Williams, FBA (1935–2009) was a Welsh historical geographer, known particularly for his work on deforestation. His book, "Deforesting the earth:...