This article explores the relevance of deep historical forces that have influenced the historical gender division of labour and the perception of women’s roles in society more generally. In particular, we will review how different types of subsistence activity in the ancient past – such as hunting and gathering and various types of agricultural technology – and geography and language can affect...

thought on the subject, to the European Middle Ages characterized here as "The Age of Faith", to the impact of the European voyages of reconnaissance and the neo-Hippocratic reassertions of the eighteenth century. Thereafter Barrett's strategy is to work biographically. Identifying key figures-Hoffman, Lind and especially Finke for the eighteenth century, Boudin, Tschudi and Schweich for the ea...

Using publicly available data on land use and transportation corridors we calculated the human footprint index for the whole of Mexico to identify large-scale spatial patterns in the anthropogenic transformation of the land surface. We developed a map of the human footprint for the whole country and identified the ecological regions that have most transformed by human action. Additionally, we a...

We review historical patterns of "economic geography" for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic areas of different scales is that models that explain the location of economic activities at one scale many not apply to other scales. We consider the p...