Experiments using fungi strains isolated from basaltic boulders allow one to decipher biological weathering. A historical approach using heterochronous moraines provides the opportunity to follow the life of weathering rinds and helps to build
Demographic change ; Historical geography ; Romania ; Town ; Urban history ; Urban population
résisté aux invasions est mentionnée plus tard comme vile Piatra (1387-1392) avec une population roumaine orthodoxe. L'ouvrage suit l'évolution démographique avec une priorité pour le 17ème siècle, où a été enregistrée une véritable révolution
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)