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  • Conserving Cultural Landscapes

    Challenges and New Directions

    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change, rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation. It builds on the premise that a successful approach to urban and cultural ... Leer más

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    de Mark Naples ...
    It is the hiding place of the Holy Grail, or a great secret that will rock the Church. It is a place of hidden treasure and dark knowledge. It is the place where Jesus is buried... These are just some of the many theories now current about the village where a Victorian priest became strangely - and massively - rich, and where he left clues to a great mystery in the very fabric of his church. What ... Leer más

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  • Gotham Unbound

    The Ecological History of Greater New York

    de Ted Steinberg ...
    **Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US HistoryA “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.**Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted ... Leer más

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  • The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier

    Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

    de A. Asa Eger ...
    The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have evocatively sketched a contested border: the annual raids between the two, the ... Leer más

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  • Places in Between

    The Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands

    Edición de David Mullin ...
    The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and "rethought". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to examine social and cultural boundaries, frontiers, marginality and ethnicity. This book, which grew out of a ... Leer más

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  • Islandology

    Geography, Rhetoric, Politics

    de Marc Shell ...
    Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland), explains the location ... Leer más

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  • An LDS Guide to the Yucatán

    Enjoy the priceless history of the Yucatan in an LDS way! Let the authors walk you through different sites as they describe each site’s history, architecture, and possible cultures. In addition to current scholarship and historical facts about each location, An LDS Guide to the Yucatan gives Book of Mormon comparisons from site to site and practical advice for traveling and boarding. Enhance your ... Leer más

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  • A History of Jaipur

    This authentic and authoritative History of Jaipur was commissioned by Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II, the last ruler of the erstwhile Jaipur state. Sir Jadunath Sarkar agreed to take up the assignment and completed the manuscript in 1939-40. This book was finally published, as it was originally written, more than 40 years later in 1984. The author meticulously documented the history of the Kachhwa ... Leer más

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  • Animal Metropolis

    Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

    Series Libro 8 - Canadian History and Environment
    Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the ... Leer más

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  • Newspaper City

    Toronto's Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935

    In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto’s two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Toronto Daily Star, nevertheless campaigned for surface infrastructure as the leading expression of modern urbanity, despite the broad resistance of property owners to pay for infrastructure improvements ... Leer más

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  • Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait

    de John Western ...
    The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences of the citizens of Strasbourg. From the turn of the twentieth century until 1945, Europe's ruling idea of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/Straßburg the prize in a tug-of-war between the two greatest continental powers, France and Germany. Then, in the immediate post-war period, ideals for European unity set up various European ... Leer más

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  • Studies in Canadian Geography

    Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    Ontario is the most populous and most prosperous province in Canada. One-third of the nation's population lives here. They produce more than one-half of Canada's manufactured goods, one-quarter of her output from mines and forests, and one-third of the farm income. Accompanying this economic pre-eminence is a majestic primeval geography. Ontario extends through sixteen degrees of latitude and a ... Leer más

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