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  • Lost Edinburgh

    Edinburgh's Lost Architectural Heritage

    Series series The Lost History Series
    An exploration of the stories behind the many buildings lost to history in Scotland's capital city.What happened to Edinburgh's once notorious but picturesque Tolbooth Prison? Where was the Black Turnpike, once a dominant building in the town? Why has one of the New Town designer's major layouts been all but obliterated? What else has been lost in Edinburgh? From Edinburgh's mean beginnings— ... Leer más

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  • Lake Erie Stories

    Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater Ocean

    de Chad Fraser ...
    Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so much more; mysterious, unpredictable, and known by mariners for its sudden violent weather and dangerous shoals, Lake Erie has been the stage for some of the most dramatic events ever to occur on the North American continent. From the earliest explorations ... Leer más

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  • San Antonio Architecture

    Traditions and Visions

    With a history more than 290 years old, San Antonio boasts a diverse, eclectic, and important architectural inventory. From the Spanish Missions of the 17th century to invigorating adaptation and restoration of historic buildings alongside landmark new construction, there is a wide array of culturally significant assets reflecting Anglo and Hispanic traditions, alongside regional variations of ... Leer más

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  • Living House

    An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

    The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of Circumnavigators

    Series series Brief Histories
    "Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the planet but within the spirit of the explorer. The story of circumnavigation is thus a long saga of human adventure, travel and discovery. Beginning with ... Leer más

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  • The Global Governance of Food

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now travel far flung trade routes to reach us. International trade in food has tripled in value and quadrupled in volume since 1960 and tracing the ... Leer más

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  • Anjalendran

    Architect of Sri Lanka

    de David Robson ...
    This beautifully illustrated book showcases the work of one of Sri Lanka's most influential architects, Anjalendran, an ethnic Tamil architect, designer and visionary artist.Working throughout decades of profound change in Sri Lanka, Anjalendran created an architecture that has attracted admiration across South Asia and beyond. In Anjalendran, architectural historian David Robson explores the life ... Leer más

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  • The Cartographic State

    Maps, Territory, and the Origins of Sovereignty

    de Jordan Branch ...
    Series Libro 127 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Why is today's world map filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries? The answer to this question is central to our understanding of international politics, but the question is at the same time much more complex - and more revealing - than we might first think. This book examines the important but overlooked role played by cartography itself in the development of modern states. ... Leer más

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  • Geographers

    Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 34

    Series series Geographers
    Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French colonial geographer, a Russian explorer-naturalist of Central Asia and Tibet, a British ... Leer más

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  • Gold Country's Forgotten Places

    de David Moore ...
    "You will find it hard to believe that there stood at one time a fiercely-flourishing little city, of two thousand or three thousand souls, with its newspaper, fire company, brass band, volunteer militia, bank, hotels, noisy Fourth of July processions and speeches—all the appointments and appurtenances of a thriving and prosperous and promising young city—and now nothing is left of it all but a ... Leer más

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  • Spatial Evolution of Manufacturing

    Southern Ontario 1851-1891

    Series series Heritage
    Europeans who settled previously unpopulated and unexploited regions of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries of the world had two economic alternatives: subsistence activities or the production of primary goods for export. In general the latter prevailed and the landscape and economy were transformed. This study examines industrial growth in Southern Ontario, one of the most economically ... Leer más

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  • The Dance of the Islands

    Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World

    Series series Oxford Classical Monographs
    Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes the ... Leer más

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