{"title":"Projecting the world: The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920","authors":"Margo Buelens-Terryn , Thomas Smits","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article studies the virtual world(s) that Belgian audiences encountered through the multimodal mass medium of the projection lantern in the early twentieth century. In contrast to previous work, we move from studying the visual representation of a single place in a small number of projection slides to examining the virtual world(s) that the lantern medium enabled. To achieve this overview, we produce and analyze a database of announcements and reviews of 5673 unique lectures lantern lectures published in Antwerp and Brussels newspapers in three sample periods (1902–1904, 1914–1918, and 1922–1924). Oscillating between distant reading the database and close reading individual announcements, we chart the virtual world(s) of this multimodal mass medium in Belgium: the parts of the globe that became visible – be it in a positive or negative projection light – and the parts that remained underexposed. We show that in this virtual world, the Belgian colony of Congo was relatively close, while it was almost impossible to visit South America. While previous research has underlined the representation of far-away and exotic places, our research demonstrates that audiences most prominently used the projection lantern to take trips in their own country. By analyzing the virtual geography on multiple scales —continents, countries, and cities— we show how Belgian audiences experienced the world through the lens of a particular medium, uncovering the complex interplay between technology, media, and geographical imagination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 403-421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696378","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}
Tomasz Związek , Milena Obremska , Michał Targowski , Łukasz Sobechowicz , Wojciech Aleksander Siwek , Michał Gąsiorowski , Martin Theuerkauf , Monika Kozłowska-Szyc , Piotr Guzowski , Radosław Poniat , Anna Mulczyk , Krzysztof Szewczyk , Tomasz Panecki , Jerzy Solon , Urszula Zachara-Związek , Michał Słowiński
{"title":"Overcoming the crisis: Social and ecological impacts of the 17th and 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) and its surrounding area","authors":"Tomasz Związek , Milena Obremska , Michał Targowski , Łukasz Sobechowicz , Wojciech Aleksander Siwek , Michał Gąsiorowski , Martin Theuerkauf , Monika Kozłowska-Szyc , Piotr Guzowski , Radosław Poniat , Anna Mulczyk , Krzysztof Szewczyk , Tomasz Panecki , Jerzy Solon , Urszula Zachara-Związek , Michał Słowiński","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The wars that ravaged the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century were among the most destructive events in the history of that part of Europe at the time. It is said that from this point on, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth transitioned from a subject to an object state. Through interdisciplinary research involving the analysis of written, cartographic, and paleoecological data, we aim to demonstrate how the exit from this major crisis looked over a nearly 150-year perspective. In this article, we present observations describing economic, social, and demographic transformations, while also focusing on landscape and ecological issues. By analyzing the surroundings of the village of Kazuń (located today in central Poland), we highlight the emergence of a new type of settlement (the so-called olędrzy) in river valleys, which in the 18th century became an important element of a new wave of settlement and restoration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 377-390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656322","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":"An Ethiopian imperial town: The forgotten historical geographies of ʾAmba Čara","authors":"Agmas Getenet Worknih","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article engages in examining the historical geography of ʾAmba Čara in the modern period of Ethiopia since 1850s. Ethiopian imperial history began in the Aksum era of the first century A.D., when an emperor moved from the country's capital and founded a number of temporary royal towns in order to develop and strengthen his kingdom. ʾAmba Čara was one of these towns. There is a dearth of research and limited literature on the subject; no one has sought to thoroughly examine the history of ʾAmba Čara previously. In this study, primary and secondary sources were used to explore the geographies of the site. Letters, chronicles, and traveler accounts served as the study's main information sources. On the other hand, data came from secondary sources including books, articles, journals, and oral histories. This study makes clear the significance of ʾAmba Čara's location, particularly since the middle of the nineteenth century, as a religious assembly center, a passageway, a convenient military training and organization center, and a temporary king's residence. This study, which also offers the first historical geography of the place, shows how ʾAmba Čara's contributed enormously to the socio-cultural and political development of the modern Ethiopian empire, starting in the middle of nineteenth century.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 391-400"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656323","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 lordscape: Mapping seigneurial jurisdictions in the late-medieval Low Countries","authors":"Margreet Brandsma, Jim van der Meulen","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.08.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the relationship between the spatial distribution of elite power and geophysical factors in two regions within the Low Countries between c.1350 – c.1650. It does so through a focus on seigneuries, bundles of territory and rights through which premodern lords and ladies across Europe held jurisdiction and economic prerogatives over local subjects. Historians have often assumed that the uneven distribution of such jurisdictions in different regions was connected to the fertility and commercial potential of the landscape. This article pioneers a structured, transregional approach to test this hypothesis, by quantifying and visualizing the spatial distribution of seigneuries in connection with three geophysical features – soil fertility, proximity to waterways, and relief – within and between two Netherlandish principalities, Guelders and Hainault. Through visualization and quantification of the spatial clustering of seigneuries, the analysis confirms that these institutions gravitated towards areas that were most fertile and commercially viable. In addition, the data suggest a hierarchy in the relative importance of geophysical features. Soil fertility emerges as the prime factor, with relief (Hainault) and waterways (Guelders) as secondary (interdependent) factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 355-371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656321","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":"Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895","authors":"Daniel A. Finch-Race","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article, prompted by first-hand experience of considerable controversy over cruise ships in the Venetian Lagoon, seeks to take forward reasoning around archipelagic wateriness. In light of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on ‘Clean Water and Sanitation’ and ‘Life below Water’, I shuttle between the twenty-first and nineteenth centuries on an experimental trajectory that brings more-than-human ecosystemic matters to the fore. Questions of place identity and mobility in the Carbon Age are set within a Mediterranean framework that rounds out understanding of modern Venice's escalating artificiality. A proposal for a hydrographic method of analysing art — adopting a sensorially immersive mode of liquid attentiveness — is applied to four works by French and Italian painters spanning two noteworthy decades: Giuseppe Pogna's ‘Venice’ (1880); Pierre-Auguste Renoir's ‘The Doge's Palace’ (1881); Emmanuel Lansyer's ‘Boats in the Environs of San Giorgio Maggiore’ (1892); Eugène Boudin's ‘Seascape at the Giudecca’ (1895).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"86 ","pages":"Pages 341-349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656328","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}