Historical Geography
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Suzannah Lessard

5 Fresh Kills One mellow winter day during my Brooklyn sojourn, just before Christmas, I set off for Red Hook with a portable easel. I like to produce a nice ...
( Category: Human Geography March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:O. Alan Weltzien [Weltzien, O. Alan]

5 Wilderness and Volcanoes A small share of the American people have an overpowering longing to retire periodically from the encompassing clutch of mechanistic civilization. . . . To them, ...
( Category: Natural History March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-24 | Author:Robert G. Hoyland & H. G. M. Williamson

Crac des Chevaliers, perhaps the most perfect of medieval castles, held by the Hospitallers from 1144 to 1271. Fortified cities were no novelty in the Muslim Near East around 1100, ...
( Category: Historical Geography February 23,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Graham Robb [Robb, Graham]

The Alesia that can be seen today on the hill above the village of Alise-Sainte-Reine is the Roman town that replaced the oppidum. The oldest part is the temple to ...
( Category: Historical Geography February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

The Dollar Real Money: a 1922 U.S. silver dollar. The most ordinary thing in the world, a scrap of paper: a buck, a greenback. The dollar: flimsy fuel for the ...
( Category: Geology March 26,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Jerry Brotton

8 Money Joan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662 Amsterdam, 1655 On 29 July 1655 the new Amsterdam Town Hall was officially opened with a banquet attended by the city’s councillors and ...
( Category: Historic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-02 | Author:Livingstone, David N. [Livingstone, David N.]

27.A section from the topographical map of Paris and environs from the Carte de Cassini, published in 1793 and comprising 182 sheets at a scale of 1:86,400. The remarkable accuracy ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )