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Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper analyses changing geographies of disposal in the urban centres of Taipei in Taiwan and Manila in the Philippines, specifically shifts from burial to cremation and the extent to which such shifts reflect changing patterns of residence ...
Tremlett, Paul-Francois
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A critical survey of recent research in Chinese economic history. [PDF]

open access: yes
China is a resilient dinosaur. In contrast with so many other great empires in Eurasia – the Egyptian, Roman, Byzantine, Arabian, Ottoman and Tsarist-Soviet – China has the longest history.
Deng, Kent
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Integration of survey, excavation and historical data in Northern Picenum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this paper it is argued that an integrated non-invasive survey approach, with a large contribution of aerial photography and remote sensing operations, is one of the best ways to achieve diachronic site characterisation and typology of Roman ...
Vermeulen, Frank
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Reinventing Regional Identity in Twenty-First Century Québécois and French Cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although rural and regional subjects and settings are well established conventions in both French and French Canadian literature and cinema, recent trends have seen filmmakers return to the rural and regional subject matter that had largely been ...
Robert, JL, Wellman, S
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Settlement history and sustainability in the Carpathians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries [PDF]

open access: yes
As part of a historical study of the Carpathian ecoregion, to identify salient features of the changing human geography, this paper deals with the 18th and 19th centuries when there was a large measure political unity arising from the expansion of the ...
Turnock, David
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Planetary Urbanisation and the Built Heritage from a Non-Western Perspective: The Question of 'How' We Should Protect the Past [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The process of planetary urbanisation, which is currently affecting a large part of the world, impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way.
Verdini, G., Verdini, G.
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