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Modeling the transformation of France's postal exchange space (1632–1833) through multipolar anamorphoses 通过多极变形来模拟法国邮政交换空间的转变（1632-1833）

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.017

Christophe Mimeur , Nicolas Verdier , Anne Bretagnolle

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Contested tradition: The canonicity of historical geography in China, 1921–1961 有争议的传统：中国历史地理学的正典性，1921-1961

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.012

Lei Zhang

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.008

Christina Hourigan

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Cartographic Reproductions: The Franciscan Legacy in Amazonian Peru, 1830–1847 地图复制品：方济会在亚马逊秘鲁的遗产，1830-1847

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.012

Roberto Chauca

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‘Sector 2: Nicosia,’ at the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus. 10 January – 31 October 2025 “第二区：尼科西亚”，塞浦路斯尼科西亚Leventis市立博物馆，2025年1月10日至10月31日

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.005

Innes M. Keighren

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Colonialism and the political economy of reconstruction: French policy in the reconstruction of Algerian inland cities, 1837–1900 殖民主义与重建的政治经济：法国在阿尔及利亚内陆城市重建中的政策，1837-1900

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.011

Amine Kasmi

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Between mapping and maps: Translocal knowledge in the making of Hochstetter and Petermann's Atlas of New Zealand (1863) 在制图和地图之间：Hochstetter和Petermann的新西兰地图集（1863）制作中的跨地域知识

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.002

Norman Henniges , Johannes Mattes , Sascha Nolden

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‘Silk Roads’ exhibition, British Museum, London, 26 September 2024–23 February 2025 “丝绸之路”展览，大英博物馆，伦敦，2024年9月26日至2025年2月23日

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.004

Elizabeth Baigent

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The Cartographic invention of Hong Kong: Alexander Dalrymple and the British colonisation of the Pearl River Estuary, 1646–1841 香港的制图发明：亚历山大-达尔林普尔和英国对珠江口的殖民统治，1646-1841 年

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005

Maxime Decaudin

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Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States 黑人档案，白人慈善家：两次世界大战之间美国的泛非世界

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003

Jake Hodder

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