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Ellen Semple's "Influences of Geographic Environment" (1911) — a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism — coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academic discipline in North America and Britain.... [ More...]
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Scotland is viewed from the context of the relationship between geographical knowledge and national identity in this study. The author explores new perspectives on Empire, national characteristics and local geographies of science, and advances a previously... [ More...]
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A description of South America recommended by Darwin: 'it gives an excellent account of the manners of this country'.
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With the original illustrations from the 1907 edtion
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The rural landscape of England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century is minutely depicted in the large-scale plans and schedules drawn for the Tithe Commissioners. Among other features shown on the maps are field boundaries and rights of way, whilst the... [ More...]
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This study uses the experience of Cracow to illuminate general patterns of trade and urban growth in Central and Eastern Europe over several centuries. Dr. Carter describes the regions and places of special significance for Cracow's trade development, and... [ More...]
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For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration "challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on... [ More...]
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How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, the farm family, farm workers, and the relationships between cultivators and others in the process of... [ More...]
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Bruce Campbell's book is the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture on a national scale. Methodologically innovative, it deals comprehensively with the cultivation carried out by or for lords on their demesne farms, for which the... [ More...]
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