Anne Knowles

Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868

Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it...

Serengeti Serenade Unbuttoned

Writer Cinn Wyatt-Jones arrives in Africa with Edwards Production Company to film a documentary about zoologist, Dr. Colin McCullough, and his research on the lions of the Serengeti. On her first morning in the National Park, Cinn hikes up a rocky hill to get a view of the land. There she runs into ...

Serengeti Serenade Unzipped

Cinn Wyatt-Jones is on her way back to the Serengeti National Park to film another documentary for Edwards Production Company. She's excited about the film, but she is far from excited about having to work again with Dr. Colin McCullough, world-renowned expert on the Serengeti lions. She's known him...

The Work of Her Hands

This simple but eloquent little novel of the Cotswolds will delight those who have enjoyed James Herriot's matchless true stories of his veterinary practice, for, like them, it is concerned with English country people and their farm animals. A warm, wonderfully capable piece of work, a short book th...

Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers)

Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of ruralcapitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community ofWelsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. Afterreconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowlesfocuses on the pivotal moment...

North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of Nort...

Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History

Encompassing a broad range of history -- from the Greek and Roman eras to the Salem witch trials and the Dust Bowl of the early 20th century, leading scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain analyze history with the tools of GIS. Through the use of modern GIS technology the past is...

Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship

In the last decade, historical GIS has emerged as a promising new methodology for studying the past. Historical GIS is the use of geographic information systems software and allied geospatial methods for historical research and teaching. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing ...

The Halcyon Island

Under the Shadow

Under the Shadow

Matthew Ratton

The Work of Her Hands

The Single in the Field

Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier

Anne Kelly Knowles

Anne Kelly Knowles (born 1957) is an American geographer and a specialist in Historical GIS. She received her MA and PhD from University of...