Die Vergangenheit der Stadt und ihr Verhältnis zur Gegenwart. Sonderdruck aus: Die historischen Gegebenheiten in ihrer Bedeutung für die Stadtentwicklung The past of the town and their relationship to the present. Separate print form: The historical
au début du 17e siècle souligne la position dominante et l’importance du rôle civique joué par les familles d’origine gaélique dans la gestion de la ville. Les colonisateurs ont modifié le noyau gaélique préexistant sans planification excessive. Le
Cadastral survey ; Caste ; Historic centre ; Kathmandu ; Nepal ; Social structure ; Town ; Urban morphology ; Urban settlement ; Urbanism
l'organisation générale de la ville. Les cours, structures omniprésentes dans l'ancien noyau, sont ici classées en catégories fondées sur des critères morphologiques, sociaux et fonctionnels. A travers ce triple éclairage, l'A. essaie de montrer l'importance des
Some traditions and methodologies of Japanese historical geography
Historical geography ; Japan ; Methodology ; Research technique
The paper provides a selective review of progress in Japanese historical geography over the last 50 years. It focuses on studies of the geography of Japan from the prehistoric period until the beginning of the modern period in 1868. Traditional
and new approaches to the historical geography of Japan are identified as are the links between historical geography and other disciplines.
Historical geography and the cartographic illusion
This essay proposes that we treat such maps as a text rather than as a mirror of reality, so that we can understand how their rhetoric has narrowed the practice of historical geography. Such a deconstruction opens the way to reintegrate cartography
more fully as part of a humanistic historical geography.
Blurred Boundaries : humanism and social science in historical geography
Geography ; Historical geography ; History ; Humanism ; Place ; Social sciences
A revisitation and expansion on the different conceptions of historical geography offered by Donald Meinig and Carville Earle in the American Historical Review (1978). To Meinig historical geography was humanistic and covered the whole realm
of human experience. Earle favored a social science approach and sought theoretical, causal explanations of geographic variation. Author sees current hybrid historical geography as reabsorbed into mainstream human geography and forming its core. - (SLD)
Climatic reconstruction in historical times based on weather records
This paper tries to review the recent studies on the climatic reconstruction of Japan in historical times using weather records. Also it discusses the possibility and effectiveness of the quantification of historical data sources. An attempt is also
made to summarize future prospects in the field of historical climatology of Japan in comparison with that of other countries. - (SGA)
Land : a recurring theme in South African historical geography
Colonization ; Historical geography ; Land ; Resource management ; South Africa
The academic sub-discipline of historical geography in South Africa developed within the broader context of the Anglophone world. The control and exploitation of the land resources has been one of the recurring themes of British and American
historical geography and this has been reflected in the South African literature. - (AJC)
Epistemology ; Historical geography ; Methodology ; Practice of geography ; Research
He poses three general and related questions. To whom are we addressing our work ? Historical geographers have not in a critical conversation with each other about their own product. What are we to write about ? Historical geographers should share
Audiovisual ; Discourse ; Historical geography ; Ideology ; Practice of geography
by historical geographers are usually not interpreted for their political representation. Finally, she urges us to consider how the visual material might reflect underlying precepts of colonialism, masculanism, and racism. - (SLD)