Geography and History is the first book for over a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines. Alan Baker considers in turn locational geographies and spatial histories, environmental geographies and histories, landscape geographies and histories, and regional geographies and regional histories.
Alan Baker considers locational geographies and spatial histories, environmental geographies and environmental histories, landscape geographies and landscape histories, and regional geographies and regional histories. Seeking to bridge the "Great Divide" between history and geography, Baker identifies basic principles relating historical geography not only to history but also to geography, a reworking which signifies a "new beginning" for this scholarly hybrid.