Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, founders of the design practice urbz, explore how such neighbourhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be under-stood as partners in the story of cities and urban development.

Uploaded June 2026

This book analyzes how tourism shaped the relations between West European democracies and the Iberian regimes: Government officials and entrepreneurs established touristic infrastructures, travel writers addressed the tension between visitors' leisure and locals' oppression, activists called for a boycott of tourism to the authoritarian regimes. In a period shaped by the Cold War, tourism turned the Iberian regimes into Europe's favourite dictatorships.

Uploaded June 2026

Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds, but in Tudor England, maps were rare. All this changed in 1579 when Christopher Saxton, a farmer from the West Riding of Yorkshire, became the first cartographer to make a published atlas of all the counties of England and Wales. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces all of Saxton's county maps together with many other drawings revealing the forebears and successors of this groundbreaking work.

Uploaded June 2026

In Rural Versus Urban , Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown argue that political polarization is not just about red states and blue states, or coastal elites who alienate those in fly-over country. Instead, polarization permeates every region and every state--and has become organized through a pernicious rural-urban division. Drawing on data on individuals, communities, and members of Congress, as well as interviews with local party leaders and former elected officials, they show how the divide emerged and why it poses a threat to democracy.

Uploaded June 2026

This book traces how knowledge traveled from the field to libraries and archives, evolving into publications and lectures that had to balance academic credibility with popular appeal, to examine how national and regional societies shaped geography into a respected discipline and a popular science entangled with American national ambitions and imperial visions.

Uploaded June 2026

Set against the backdrop of southern Chile's conservation frontier, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani's Alterhumanism invites us to recognize the centrality of the human condition in the face of an increasingly uncertain world and imagine future forms of coexistence.

Uploaded June 2026

Over the course of more than fifty years, Juanita Harrison traveled constantly, first throughout the US and then throughout the world. Combining micro histories, literary criticism, and biography-and despite limited archival records-Cathryn Halverson skillfully traces Harrison from her birth in the bitterly divided South to her death in Hawai'i. The resulting portrait shows a woman who moved beyond all kinds of borders-political, social, and cultural-to experience a freedom rarely available to women, and especially women of color, in the early-to-mid twentieth century, an achievement that continues to resonate.

Uploaded February 2026

Number 7 in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, Maynooth traces the history of this eighteenth-century town through its cartographic and primary sources from earliest times to c. 1900.These atlases illustrate characteristic periods of town formation in Ireland and reflect the country's cultural identity through the town's topographical history.

Uploaded February 2026

Stefanie Schien explores the lived experiences of a Shuar community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that hosts volunteer tourists. By emphasizing the perspectives and agency of the host community, this thought-provoking study complicates our understanding of voluntourism and shows that what is at stake for the Shuar in this global exchange is the continuation of their self-determined way of life.

November 2025

This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centuries of maps held in The National Archives at Kew, looks at a variety of maps, from those found in 14th-century manuscripts, through to early estate maps, to maps used in 20th-century military campaigns.

November 2025