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Carl Ritter als Kartenzeichner in Schnepfenthal. 200 Jahre Philanthropinum und 125. Todestag seines bedeutendsten Zoglings. (Carl Ritter as a cartographer at Schnepfenthal. Bicentenary of the Philanthropic foundation and 125th anniversary of the death of its more brilliant representative

of the death of its more brilliant representative

Historical geography and the cartographic illusion

more fully as part of a humanistic historical geography.

The four traditions of geography

Reprint of a widely circulated article, first published in 1964, that helped to stabilize the discourse of geography in the USA for more than 20 years. It organized geography into the spatial, area studies, man-land and earth sciences traditions

Mystery of the Maya revealed

Recent findings of relic terraces, ditches, and canals suggest a much more intensive agriculture among the prehistoric Maya than previously known. - (D. W. Gade).

Advertisements for American selves : nineteenth-century Pennsylvania county atlases

These American centennial atlases contained maps and engravings of houses and farms in serene domesticity. Social ideals were more apparent than geographical factual accuracy. - (DWG)

La controverse Anuchin (1960-1976), un tournant dans l'histoire de la pensée géographique en URSS

with Anuchin Controversy's main stream. This debate was the most important scientific problem faced by communism since Lyssenko's genetic controversy during the thirties and the forties. Currently, Soviet geography is involved more and more with geographic

Pocatky regionalni geografie e jeji vyvoj do 17. stoleti Les débuts de la géographie régionale et son développement jusqu'au 17e siècle

The A. describes the gradual dissemination of knowledge in individual regions as well as written and cartographical procedures. They constitute the basis for a further research with more recent regional interpretations. - (MS)

The transportation system of medieval England and Wales

The analysis combines the river navigations with the network of major roads and the location of the more important towns, in order to depict the main geographical elements of the medieval urban trading system.

Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

European displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand were more a matter of the introduction and spread of plants, animals, and diseases than of military conquest

Use of plants in the European Palaeolithic: a review of the evidence

The varied evidence available for the different uses to which plant materials were put during the European Palaeolithic is summarised. Actual remains of plants are more abundant than is generally realised, while the indirect clues provided by tools

Raymond E. Crist : a biographical essay in Festschrift to honor Raymond E. Crist.

in more different parts of Latin America than perhaps any other geographer-scholar. Crist's bibliography of 130 publications written between 1932-1984 is included. - (DWG)

Problems of quantitative geography in China.

Started in the mid fifties, quantitative geography has seen further development in the eighties. It is among the courses offered in more than 10 universities and widely applied in urban geography, transportation geography, agricultural geography

Klimawechsel und Siedlungsgeschichte im eurasischen Steppenraum und am Aralsee. (Changement de climat et histoire de colonisation dans la région de steppe d'Eurasie et au bord de la Mer d'Aral)

Aral'skoe more ; Asie ; Asie des steppes ; Colonisation agricole ; Eurasie ; Europe de l'Est ; Histoire de la géographie ; Histoire du peuplement ; Monde ; Peuplement ; Région des steppes ; Steppe boisée ; Steppes méridionales ; URSS ; Variation

A PAPER LANDSCAPE: THE ORDNANCE SURVEY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY IRELAND

AND 1846| THEIR REVISION BEGAN IN 1844, AND PRODUCTION OF BOTH SMALLER AND LARGER-SCALE MAPS CONTINUED UNTIL ALMOST THE END OF THE CENTURY. THIS ACCOUNT DEALS ALSO WITH MORE RECENT ASPECTS OF IRISH SURVEY HISTORY, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CADESTRAL MAPS

Spatial management of hominid groups at Olduvai: a preliminary exercise in Palaeoecology of Africa and the surrounding islands. Volume 14.

, merely tentative interpretations may be advanced. It would appear that proximity of fresh water and food resources weighed more in the decision-making process than that of raw materials.