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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.002

Mike Heffernan

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Where was Dien Bien Phu? Oey Hong Lee's eventful geography of decolonization 奠边府在哪里？李宏的非殖民化地理学

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.004

Christian C. Lentz

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From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906 从猎人到牧人：1890 - 1906年阿拉斯加的种族、驯鹿和帝国扩张

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.008

Peter R. Martin

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A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800–1803) 测量的历史地理学：Inoh Tadataka的日本东部和中部地图探险（1800-1803）

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001

Yuki Iwai , Yuji Murayama

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Systematic forest recording using the first cadastral maps: The Brumov estate case study (Czech Republic) 使用第一张地籍图系统记录森林：布鲁莫夫庄园案例研究（捷克共和国）

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.005

Petr Dujka

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Housing colonialism: Regulating low density communities in 1950s Hong Kong 房屋殖民主义：1950年代香港低密度社区的规管

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.013

Junwei Li

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Exhibition review: ‘Más tierra de que antes se sabía. Hacia el quinto centenario del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú (1524–2024)’ at the Military Historical Museum of Seville, Spain. 22 November - 14 December 2024 展览评论：“比以前知道的更多的土地。纪念发现和征服秘鲁（1524 - 2024）500周年，西班牙塞维利亚军事历史博物馆

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.006

Álvaro Recio Mir

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Archives as worldmaking 档案作为世界的缔造者

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.018

Jake Hodder , Sneha Krishnan

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Archiving and the aspirational politics of self-determination: Non-state claims to legitimacy amongst the Nagas in Northeast India 存档与自决的理想政治：印度东北部那加人的非国家合法性主张

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.007

Alex Manby

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Confederacy, colonialism, controversy: How history serves the present in the Alabama Department of Archives and History 邦联，殖民主义，争议：历史如何服务于阿拉巴马州档案和历史部门

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Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.005

Sarah Chant

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