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Boreas, EarlyView.We present a 25‐stage reconstruction of the ice‐flow pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet based on mapping and analysis of ~240 000 subglacial lineations and lineation fields across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of NW Russia. Our reconstruction uses a glacial geomorphological inversion approach, in which we generated 611 individual ...
Frances E. G. Butcher +9 more
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Knowledge-based systems and geological survey [PDF]
, 2005 This personal and pragmatic review of the philosophy underpinning methods of geological surveying suggests that important influences of information technology have yet to make their impact.
Loudon, T.V.
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Regional impacts of international tourism boycott: A China—Japan conflict
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the regional impacts of the Sino–Japan dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands that sparked a Chinese consumer boycott of travel to Japan from August 2012. This boycott caused significant and varied regional impacts across Japan.
Theresa M. Greaney, Kozo Kiyota
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LDL (Landscape Digital Library) : A Digital Photographic Database of a Case Study Area in the River Po Valley, Northern Italy [PDF]
, 2001 Landscapes are both a synthesis and an expression of national, regional and local cultural heritages. It is therefore very important to develop techniques aimed at cataloguing and archiving their forms.
Papotti, Davide, Salarelli, Alberto
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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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Off the Edge of the Map: The Search for Portuguese Influence on the Piri Reis Map of 1513
, 2012 Left tattered after centuries of ware, hidden in the walls of Topkapı Sarayı, the 1513 map of the Ottoman cartographer Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri has not been properly contextualized in light of Portuguese cartography of the time.
Bridges, Robert S.
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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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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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Up: town: Collaborative Imagination of Resilient Urban Futures Through Serious Gaming
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper introduces ‘up:town’, a serious game that engages diverse participants in collaboratively imagining and negotiating resilient urban futures amid social, economic and ecological uncertainty. Drawing on international gameplay sessions, it demonstrates how serious gaming fosters critical reflection, collective learning and the co‐
Hilke Marit Berger +2 more
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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