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Paving the empire: Roads, compulsory labor, and logistical governance in late Ottoman modernity 铺路帝国：奥斯曼帝国晚期现代性的道路、强制劳动和后勤管理

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.12.004

Orhan Hayal

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Climate, crisis, and colonialism: Volcanic eruptions and the causes of famine in British India, 1831 to 1838 气候、危机和殖民主义：1831年至1838年英属印度的火山爆发和饥荒的原因

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.005

Richard Warren

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Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present 海洋环境的采样者：用海鸟了解海洋，1958年至今

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2026.01.009

Oscar Hartman Davies

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From perdition to paradise: Patagonia, Juan Fernández, and the Southeastern Pacific in the British geographical imaginary, 1680–1768 从地狱到天堂：巴塔哥尼亚、胡安Fernández和英国地理想象中的东南太平洋，1680-1768

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.12.006

Elizabeth Chant , Natalia Gándara Chacana

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Historical geography in contemporary China: Key opportunities and characteristics 当代中国历史地理学：关键机遇与特征

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.12.001

Tang Xiaofeng

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The European North of Russia as a timber colony, 1890–1930 俄国欧洲北部作为木材殖民地(1890-1930

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.007

Vasily Borovoy

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Geopolitical enclaves: Space and social-political change in cold war Taiwan's military dependent villages 地缘政治飞地：冷战时期台湾军事依附村的空间与社会政治变迁

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2026.01.003

Max D. Woodworth

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Spaces of memory, scales of memory: The Equal Justice Initiative's marking of lynching from Montgomery to Montevallo and beyond, 2015–2025 记忆的空间，记忆的尺度：平等司法倡议对从蒙哥马利到蒙特瓦洛及其他地区私刑的标记，2015-2025

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.12.003

Tim Cole

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Cultural resilience and coping with disasters in the past. A theoretical framework 文化弹性和应对过去的灾难。理论框架

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.008

Lotte Jensen , Adriaan Duiveman

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A Dynamic Timber Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective on Lumbering in Algonquin Provincial Park (1836–1930) 动态的木材边界：阿尔冈昆省立公园伐木的考古视角（1836-1930）

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.011

R. Alexander Hunter, Roderick MacKay

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