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3 produkter
Placing Names
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
Av Ruth Mostern
Inbunden, 2016
583 kr
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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 …
Yellow River
A Natural and Unnatural History
Av Ruth Mostern
Inbunden, 2021
330 kr
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A three-thousand-year history of China’s Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape “No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive account of the long-term changes in the river’s function and structure. I consider it to be the definitive …
‘Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern’
The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960–1276 CE)
Av Ruth Mostern
Inbunden, 2011
447 kr
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States are inherently and fundamentally geographical. Sovereignty is based on control of territory. This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. On more than a thousand occasions, the Song court founded, abolished, …
