Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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МонголоведениеIntroduction. The presented article reveals the visual background of the causes of the military conflict on the Khalkhin Gol river in 1939 on the eve of the 85th anniversary of these events, and the authors focus the reader’s attention on the importance ...
Pavel N. Dudin, Kirill Yu. Bazarov
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Source Localization and Tracking for Dynamic Radio Cartography using Directional Antennas [PDF]
, 2019 Mohsen Joneidi +3 more
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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Cartographic Visualisation and the Image of the Other in the Example of Multiple Borderlands
Migracijske i etničke teme, 2011 The article examines the communication possibilities of early modern maps as historical sources within the methodological frame of imagology and constructionist theory.
Snježana Gregurović +1 more
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The Kingdom of Loango: Cartographical and Textual Sources in Semprilis y Genorodano (1629)
, 2020 The Spanish Byzantine novel Historia de las fortunas de Semprilis y Genorodano (1629) by Juan Enríquez de Zúñiga belongs to the sequels of Cervantes’ Persiles, although shows some significant differences. The literary geography unfolded in the novel, full of shipwrecks, islands, and barbarians, has an apparently absurd and improbable spatial ...
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Sources of variability in cartographers' deconstruction of fractals : paper presented at the 18 November 1998 meeting of the British Cartographic Society's Design Group at the University of Glasgow [PDF]
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Visvalingam, Maheswari
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Mapping cyberspace: visualising, analysing and exploring virtual worlds [PDF]
, 1999 In the past years, with the development of computer networks such as the Internet and world wide web (WWW), cyberspace has been increasingly studied by researchers in various disciplines such as computer sciences, sociology, geography, and cartography
Jiang, B., Ormeling, F.
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Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract One of the world's great rivers, the Brahmaputra, avulsed—changed course—significantly sometime between the dates of 1765 and 1830. These are the dates of surveys by James Rennell (grey) and Richard Wilcox (black), both under the direction of the East India Company; no other surveys between these dates can refine the estimate of the ...
Keith Richards +2 more
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Историко-географический журналThe article is devoted to the issues of determining the level of cartographic exploration and its connection with the historical development of the territory under consideration.
E. S. Grishin
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