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  • The Yellow River

    A Natural and Unnatural History

    de Ruth Mostern ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscapeFrom Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Toward Spatial Humanities

    Historical GIS and Spatial History

    de Les Roberts, Thomas Thevenin, Julia Hallam, Andrew Beveridge, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Niall A. Cunningham, Robert M. Schwartz, Elijah Meeks ...
    The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Placing Names

    Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers

    Edición de Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall ...
    Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

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  • Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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    de Worth Books ...
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  • Digital Methods

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  • Displacing Blackness

    Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax

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  • The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

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  • A Billion Voices

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