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Study focuses on local government formation process in Kawagoe City from Edo Period to Meiji Era

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023
Transformation of administrative organization from early‐modern towns and villages in the Edo Period to municipalities in the Meiji Era. Abstract This paper focuses on the process of local government formation, from the Edo Period to the Meiji Era, in Kawagoe City, which has its roots in a castle town at the end of the Edo Period, in order to discover ...
Hiroshi Tsuchida, Yuka Honda
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A theory for the “Anglo-Saxon mind”: Ellen Churchill Semple's reinterpretation of Friedrich Ratzel'sAnthropogeographie [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica, 2022
Abstract. The American geographer Ellen Churchill Semple (1863–1932), famous for her work on environmental influence, is often framed as a mere disciple of the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904). Drawing on a reading of Semple's published and unpublished works as well as correspondence and diaries, this paper sheds new light on the two ...
Klinke, Ian
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From lime kilns to art galleries: a historical anthropogeography of the Maine Coast City of Rockland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This dissertation is a historical anthropogeography that focuses on the city of Rockland, Maine from its prehistoric beginnings to the present. Throughout the historic period, a series of single industries have dominated Rockland\u27s economy while its ...
Fagan, William Francis
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Against determinism: A reassessment of Marcel Mauss’s essay on seasonal variations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Le célèbre «Essai sur les variations saisonnières des sociétés Eskimos» de Marcel Mauss est traditionnellement compris comme un texte sur la prééminence du monde social dans le fait de déterminer et d’imposer une organisation saisonnière au monde ...
Bravo, Michael T.
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Geographic science and the development of its aims and methods : an essay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In a general sense, Geography deals with a number of thematically differently defined phenomena on the surface of the earth (as just a glance at any map show). These phenomena which come into contact with, overlap and restrict one another.
Fliedner, Dietrich
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Hidden landscapes of the ancient Maya: transect excavations at Arvin\u27s Landing southern Belize [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Transect excavations at Arvin’s Landing in southern Belize revealed evidence of ancient Maya settlement indiscernible from surface inspection. The synthesis of archaeology and geography in field and laboratory methods and analysis provided the framework ...
Somers, Bretton Michael
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Cudze ganicie, swego nie znacie… Koncepcje krajobrazu w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym i ich recepcja w archeologii osadnictwa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
It is commonly assumed that landscape studies is a foreign development to Polish archaeology. The idea of landscape is strongly associated with British school of thoughts, while Central European settlement studies are regarded as deeply rooted in German ...
Żuk, Lidia
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