{"title":"","authors":"José Luis Romanillos","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143621142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Matthew J. Hannaford","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143621143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Reopening the gaze of a second city","authors":"Rita Gayle","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143628785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coal, state, and society: Resource-making and state formation in early republican Turkey","authors":"Mehmet Eroğlu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Commercial coal mining in Turkey's Zonguldak region began in the mid-nineteenth century and played a significant role in both the late Ottoman period and, with increasing importance, the subsequent republic. This paper examines the processes through which Zonguldak's coal reserves became the most important national energy resource during the early republican period (1920s–1940s). Building on critical resource geography scholarship, I argue that a dialectical relationship existed between the resource-making of Zonguldak's coal reserves and the state formation in the early republic. Specifically, I demonstrate that Zonguldak's coal reserves were both materially and discursively employed by state elites to further the state-building project. In turn, this project facilitated the formulation, justification, and implementation of policies and plans related to the extraction, distribution, and utilization of Zonguldak's coal reserves. In examining the interplay between resource-making and state formation, I focus specifically on the material and practical implications for the Zonguldak region, illustrating the transformation of the physical landscape, state-society relations, and labor conditions. I conclude the paper by briefly addressing how this historical period laid the foundation for Zonguldak's near-complete dependence on the coal industry, which has since shaped the region's economic and social fabric.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 68-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143549551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surviving the agricultural periphery: Climatic resilience and livestock production in pre-industrial central Scandinavia","authors":"Martin Karl Skoglund","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the climatic resilience of farms in Jämtland and Västernorrland in northern Sweden during the crucial period of agricultural transformation in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on livestock production. Until recently, detailed studies of the impact of climatic change and variability on livestock-oriented regions has been lacking. This article presents a large dataset of livestock production, comprising almost 30 000 tithe observations, the vast majority at the farm level, spanning the period 1582 to 1858, with a particular focus on the peak period of the agricultural transformation around 1770–1840. Food from livestock, mainly milk and its derivative products, is shown to have constituted almost three-quarters of overall food production in the region. Livestock numbers fluctuated not only with household size but also with barley harvests, demonstrating the inherent interdependence of livestock and crops in the mixed farming system of the region. The primary climatic factor affecting livestock numbers from year to year was the temperature during the growing season of the preceding year. This influence predominantly stemmed from the impact of growing season temperatures on meadow growth and arable crop yields. During the period 1770–1840, grain harvest failures only had a marginal effect on the size of subsequent livestock herds, and in several years of harvest failure, livestock numbers could be maintained, demonstrating that livestock could act as a one-year buffer to climatic shocks. After 1773, agricultural improvements helped to mitigate the effects of slumps in agricultural production on subsequent mortality levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 53-67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where amenity and modernity collided: The Lake District national park and West Cumberland's atomic coast","authors":"Gary Willis","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article serves as a lens for understanding — <em>in extremis</em> — the tensions generated when state-sponsored modernity and amenity collide. In examining the origin of Britain's largest military-civil atomic complex at Sellafield alongside the delineation of the Lake District National Park's boundaries, the article demonstrates how the dual post-war reconstruction objectives of amenity and modernity were forced to reach an accommodation within the same geographical area and over an overlapping time period. Whilst the origins of national parks are well served by national park historiography, the contestation of any of their boundaries has not been explored. Furthermore, whilst the history of Britain's military-civil nuclear complex has been served by official narratives, it remains under-explored by unofficial ones. This article brings together for the first time state and civil society archive material. It exposes how emerging state military-civil strategic priorities, and state secrecy, framed the contestation over boundaries with civil society proponents of the Lake District National Park. This undermined civil society's capacity to maintain an effective opposition to these military-industrial developments, leading ultimately to the British State's war factory expansion and the immediate post-war development of its military-civil atomic capacity, overtaking and superseding the amenity organisations' boundary aspirations for the park.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 39-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}