INTO THE AMAZON: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist

2024-9-11

Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance

2024-9-11

Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

2024-8-27

Thinking the Other: From <i>Terra Australis Incognita</i> to <i>Terra Nullius</i>

2024-8-19

Intersensorial Race Science and Exploration in the Age of Jackson

2024-7-31

Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance <b>Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance</b> . By <scp>malyn</scp> <scp>newitt</scp> . London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2023. 368 pp., indices, and color illustrations. $40.00. ISBN 9781789147025.

2024-7-26

Mapping the Proposed Caribbean Zoonotic (Swine Influenza) Epidemic of 1493 As a Geographic Model of Infectious Virus Dispersion

2024-7-19

“Ourselves Writ savage”: Disease, Desire, and Colonialism in Kuru Country

2024-7-19

Introductions

2024-7-9

The Evolution of Maps Produced by Adam Gilg Between 1688–93: A Case-Study on the Production and Circulation of Jesuit Geographical Knowledge of Sonora

2024-6-24

Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason <b>Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason</b> . By P <scp>aul</scp> R <scp>amirez</scp> . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Xiv + 358 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $80.00 ISBN: 978-1-5036-0433-9.

2024-6-17

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round <b>The Globe: How the Earth Became Round</b> . By J <scp>ames</scp> H <scp>annam</scp> . London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 376 pp., 46 illustrations, 9 in color, £16.99 (HB). ISBN: 9781789147582.

2024-6-17

Shadowlands - A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages <b>Shadowlands - A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages</b> . By M <scp>atthew</scp> G <scp>reen</scp> . New York and London: W.W, Norton &amp; Company Ltd, 2002. Notes and Index, US$18.95, ISBN: 978-1-324-06449-7

2024-6-10

Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent <b>Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent</b> . By H <scp>anne Elliot</scp> F <scp>ønss Nielsen</scp> . Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2023, 268 pp., B&amp;W illustrations and photographs, notes, bibliography, index; $60.00 (HB), ISBN 978-1-4962-2121-6

2024-5-25

Courting India <b>Courting India</b> . By Nandini Das. New York: Pegasus Books Ltd, 2023. XXII+ 441 pp. maps, b/w &amp; color illustrations, notes, and index, $35 (HB). ISBN 9781639363223.

2024-5-25

Infectious diseases and exploration history

2024-5-3

Theodor De Bry’s Representations of the Americas and Indigenous Agency: A Reframing of Timucua Medical Practice

2024-5-3

<b>With Anza to California, 1775-1776: The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M</b> <b>With Anza to California, 1775-1776: The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M</b> . Edited and translated by ALAN K. BROWN. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2022, 464 pp., softcover, thirty-one black &amp; white illustrations, eight maps, appendix, bibliography and index. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-9093-8.

2024-5-3

The Indies of the Setting Sun <b>The Indies of the Setting Sun</b> . By Ricardo Padrón. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 346 pp., 35 illustrations and maps, $35.00 (PB). ISBN 97802268200019.

2024-1-2

The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine <b>The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine</b> . By Cian T. McMahon. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 328 pp., 11 b/w illustrations. $23.00. ISBN 9781479820535.

2024-1-2

Recent Literature in Exploration History

2024-1-2

Beyond Maximilian’s Empire: French Travelers and Explorers Throughout Nineteenth-Century Mexico

2024-1-2

Cinematic Journeys in Latin America: Geography Through the Lens of Exploration and Discovery Films <b>Cinematic Journeys in Latin America: Geography Through the Lens of Exploration and Discovery Films</b> , By Richard Francaviglia, Jefferson, NC: McFarland &amp; Company, Incorporated, Publishers, 2023, 265 pp., 87 b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. $65.00 (PB). ISBN: 978-1-4766-9252-4.

2024-1-2

Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason <b>Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason</b> . By Paul Ramirez. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018, Xiv + 358 pp., notes, bibliography, notes, index, 6 maps, 6 figures, and 3 tables, $80.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781503604339

2024-1-2

A Nineteenth-Century French Migrant and Traveler in Northwestern Mexico: Gabriel Ferry’s Romantic Impressions of Landscapes, Economy, and Society

2024-1-2

Humans and Nature in Texas and Tamaulipas Shaded by Sentimental Exoticism: Emmanuel Domenech’s Depictions of North America

2024-1-2

A Frenchman in the Solitudes of the Mexican Southeast: Désiré Charnay’s use of Landscapes and Emotions in the Construction of his Exploration Narrative and Identity

2024-1-2

The Global Turn in the History of French Imperialism: Power Beyond the Colonies <b>A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century</b> . By David Todd. Histories of Economic Life Series, Vol. 12. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 368 pp. illustrations and tables. $42.00/£35.00. ISBN 9780691171838. <b>France, Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America, 1820-1867: Equilibrium in the New World</b> . By Edward Shawcross. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial …

2024-1-2

The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana 1792: The Last Spanish Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America <b>The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana 1792: The Last Spanish Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America</b> , Edited and translated by J <scp>ohn</scp> K <scp>endrick</scp> . Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. 260 pp., $24.95 (paperback), illustrations, maps, glossary of place names, appendices, bibliography and index. ISBN 978-0-9102.

2023-9-2

<b> Buying America from the Indians: <i>Johnson v.</i> <i>McIntosh</i> and the History of Native Land Rights </b> <b> Buying America from the Indians: <i>Johnson v.</i> <i>McIntosh</i> and the History of Native Land Rights </b> . By BLAKE A. WATSON. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Xvi + 494 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (PB). ISBN 9780806191270.

2023-9-2

<b>Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature</b> <b>Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature</b> . By Karl Nixon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 10 + 263 pp., acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95 (PB). ISBN: 978-1-4384-7848-7.

2023-9-2

Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks <b>Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks</b> . By Alan G. Jamieson. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. 342 pp., b/w &amp; color illustrations, bibliography, index, $30.41 (Cloth). ISBN: 978-1-78914-619-6.

2023-9-2

Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole <b>Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole</b> . By WAYNE L. WHITE. Lincoln: Potomac Books, an Imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 256 pp., 28 color photographs, and 1 chart, $29.95 (HB). ISBN: 978-1-64012-552-0.

2023-9-2

The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 <b>The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850</b> . By David Gwyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 416 pp., indices, and b/w and color illustrations, $35.00. ISBN: ‎ 978-030-0267-89-1.

2023-9-2

CACICAS: The Indigenous Women leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 <b>CACICAS: The Indigenous Women leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825</b> . Edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. VIII+333 pp., black and white maps and illustrations. $ 26.95 (PB). ISBN 978-0-8061-9111-9.

2023-9-2

Why La Salle Hung French Fortunes on a Western Branch: The Maps of Franquelin and Coronelli

2023-9-2

Revisiting the “Admiral’s Map”: What Was It? And Who Was He?

2023-9-2

Jolliet and Marquette: a New History of the 1673 Expedition <b>Jolliet and Marquette: a New History of the 1673 Expedition</b> . Edited by Mark Walczynski. Champaign, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2023. 289 pp., $24.95 (PB). ISBN 9780252045219.

2023-9-2

Cartography and Climate in Exploration History: The Cases of Cook, La Salle, and the Admiral’s Map

2023-9-2

“Weather, People, Ship”: The Environment’s Impact on Cook’s First Voyage into the Pacific

2023-9-2

Georges Cuvier’s Autopsy Report on Sara Baartman: A translation and commentary

2023-5-4

Mapping Christopher Columbus: An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492

2023-5-4

Recent Literature in the History of Exploration

2023-5-4

Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier

2023-5-4

The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire

2023-5-4

In Search of Monsters: Constructing the “Other” in Spanish Chronicles of the Americas and Early Russian Descriptions of Siberia

2023-5-4

The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World

2023-5-4

Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

2023-5-4

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb

2023-5-4

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

2023-5-4