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Confins, 2018 The field of historical cartography has been widely developed over the past 30 years, with an increasing number of works using historical maps as sources for understanding the processes of the social and economic history of a place at a given time.
José Rogério Beier, Daniel Marhtin
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, 2015 At the turn of the 20th century, the practical examination of caves went through a radical change. Governmental organizations and private clubs were founded in an attempt to establish speleology as an independent academic subject.
Mattes, Johannes (Department of History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna)
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Assessing habitat suitability for black grouse broods at the bioregional scale
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The black grouse Lyrurus tetrix, a galliform species emblematic of the European Alps, is currently threatened by habitat change, particularly given the closure of heathland linked to the rising tree line at higher altitudes. The presence of heathlands in good ecological condition is, however, imperative for the species' reproduction.
Alexandre T. M. Defossez +6 more
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Ancient civilizations’ territorial borders analyzed through their cosmogonies
Estudios FronterizosThis paper compares the ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamian civilizations’ concept of borders and their relation with the spaces they transformed through a comparative approach of selected ancient civilizations, putting these cosmogonies into a ...
Guido Cimadomo +2 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The History of Cartography, Volume Six; Cartography in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
The Cartographic Journal, 2016 The publication of volume six of The History of Cartography is a momentous occasion. Monmonier, its editor, has the right blend of general and specialist knowledge to make this a very special volum...
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, 2008 Formulation of the problem This study focuses on the use of a geographic information system (GIS) with regard to access to map books. The goal of this study is the following: • To obtain insight into the various types of geographic information systems in
Heere, Elger, +3 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Cartography: the ideal and its history
, 2019 Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space.
Edney, Matthew H, Edney, Matthew H., PhD
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Star maps: history, artistry, and cartography
, 2007 Traces the history of celestial cartography and relates this history to the changing ideas of man''s place in the universe and to advances in map-making. This book features reproductions of maps from antiquarian celestial atlases and prints.
Kanas, Nick
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