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G.T. DempseyG.T. Dempsey

G.T. Dempsey is a Research Associate in the history of Late Antiquity at the University of California at Davis and, as a retired American career diplomat, he is also a commentator on American foreign policy.
Book cover for We Are the Land.

Review | We Are the Land: A History of Native California

March 7, 2021 by G.T. Dempsey

We Are the Land: A History of Native California recounts the perspective of the California Indians.

Categories Cultural Geography Tags Geography Book Reviews, Native Americans
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Photo: NPS / Jacob W. Frank, public domain.

Review | Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park

February 24, 2021February 22, 2021 by G.T. Dempsey

This book is a collaborative effort to investigate the successes and failures of the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park

Categories Biogeography Tags Geography Book Reviews, reintroduction, wolves, Yellowstone
Cover of 'The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps"

Review | The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps

December 21, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

When you finish this delight of a book, you feel that the history of the mapping of Rome can stand as the very paradigm of the history of pre-digital cartography itself.

Categories Maps Tags historical geography, Italy, urban geography
Time in Maps book cover

Review: Time in Maps

February 24, 2021December 13, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

Time in Maps is a sumptuously-illustrated large-sized book that serves as a celebration of the development of GIS.

Categories Maps Tags cartography, Geography Book Reviews, mapping time, space and time

Review | The Best American Travel Writing 2020

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

Travel writing as it should be – we are invited to learn from the setting of lessons by the learned and the observant.

Categories Tourism Geography
Cassiodorus book

Review | The Selected Letters of Cassiodorus: A Sixth-Century Sourcebook

October 21, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

A millennium and a half ago, or so, if you wanted to break away from the western Roman Empire, you simply called in the barbarians.

Categories Historical Geography Tags Geography Book Reviews, Roman Empire

Review | Dreamers and Schemers

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

Barry Siegel’s “Dreamers and Schemers” features William May Garland who propelled LA’s early development into a major metropolis through his ‘irresistible life force’ of salesmanship.

Categories Urban Geography Tags Geography Book Reviews, Los Angeles

Review | The 99% Invisible City

September 24, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

The 99% Invisible City explains the small mysteries in our everyday urban geography.

Categories Urban Geography Tags Geography Book Reviews

The Geography of Early Christian Ireland and England

June 12, 2020June 11, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

     For nearly four centuries, Britain was Roman Britannia.  This period of imperial rule was a largely peaceful and prosperous time.  It was also a period of the Christianization … Read more

Categories Cultural Geography Tags ecclesiastical geography

Review: Maps for Time Travelers

September 28, 2020May 26, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

A survey of the geospatial technological advances which have enabled today’s archaeologists to map the ancient world.

Categories Geography Techniques Tags Geography Book Reviews

Review | A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

August 13, 2020April 16, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

This is a self-help book about how each of us, both personally and together, can deal with the angst of confronting this seemingly intractable problem of climate change.

Categories Environmental Geography Tags Geography Book Reviews

Review | Rivers of Power

August 13, 2020April 2, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

Rivers shape the surface of our planet and play a role in human history. Review of Rivers of Power by G.T. Dempsey.

Categories Environmental Geography Tags Geography Book Reviews

Review | Dangerous Earth

August 13, 2020March 25, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

G.T. Dempsey reviews Ellen Prager’s Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More.

Categories Physical Geography Tags climate change, Geography Book Reviews, natural disasters

Review | Phantom Islands: In Search of Mythical Lands

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 by G.T. Dempsey

In this book, Dirk Liesener provides the life-stories of islands, some thirty of them, which though thought to exist in some cases for many centuries turned out to either not be an island or to have never existed to start with. 

Categories Maps Tags Geography Book Reviews, island geography, map myths
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