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Place and Politics in Modern Italy
Häftad, 2002
349 kr
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How do the places where people live help structure and restructure their sociopolitical identities and interests? In this book, renowned political geographer John A. Agnew presents a theoretical model that addresses the relation of place to politics and applies it to a series of …
American Capitals
A Historical Geography
Inbunden, 2014
1093 kr
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State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committing place-names to memory. But geographers have yet …
Politics of Planting
Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery
Häftad, 1993
349 kr
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On the open landscape of Israel and the West Bank, where pine and cypress forests grow alongside olive groves, tree planting has become symbolic of conflicting claims to the land. Palestinians cultivate olive groves as a vital agricultural resource, while the Israeli government has made restoration …
Beyond the Basilica
Christians and Muslims in Nazareth
Häftad, 1995
426 kr
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Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel, is a surprising example of ethnic harmony in a region dominated by conflict. A recent trend toward integration of its historical Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Muslim quarters, however, has disrupted the harmony. In this book, Emmett provides an …
Indian Reservations in the United States
Territory, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomic Change
Av Klaus Frantz
Häftad, 1999
358 kr
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In this cultural-geographic study of the American Indian reservations in the 48 contiguous states, Klaus Frantz explores the reservations as living environments rather than historical footnotes. Although this study provides researched documentation of the generally deplorable living conditions on …
Steamer Parish
The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier
Häftad, 2004
412 kr
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In the mid-1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). Inspired by Dr. David Livingstone, they felt a special calling to bring the Church, education, and medical care to rural Africans. To deliver services across a huge, remote area, the UMCA relied …
Calvinists Incorporated
Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
Häftad, 1997
434 kr
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Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, the author focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as …
Isle of Fire
The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar
Häftad, 2004
349 kr
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Long considered both best friend and worst enemy to humankind, fire is at once creative and destructive. In the endangered tropical paradise of Madagascar, the two faces of fires have fueled a century-long conflict between rural farmers and island leaders. For the farmers, wildland burning plays a …
Deforestation in the Postwar Philippines
Häftad, 1992
426 kr
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The only quantitative deforestation study to focus on one country, this case analysis of the Philippines since 1946 yields more concrete data than previous cross-national studies. David Kummer's close examination of the interactions among political, economic, and cultural factors and their …
Urban Regimes and Strategies
Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels
Häftad, 1996
395 kr
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If a city based its planning decisions on the needs of an international bureaucracy rather than on the traditional needs of local residents and businesses, how would that city change? How might it look? In Brussels, Belgium - home to the European Union since 1957 - such change is taking place. …
Challenging Nature
Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania
Inbunden, 2006
640 kr
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Tanga Region, Tanzania, is an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic disruption. Though farmers have been cultivating the land there for hundreds of years, they have consistently been unable to supply adequate food …
Dividing the Land
Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic
Häftad, 1995
439 kr
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Many property lines drawn in early America still survive today and continue to shape the landscape and character of the United States. In this study, Price examines the process by which land was divided into private property and distributed to settlers from the beginning of colonization to early …
Wetlands of the American Midwest
A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes
Av Hugh Prince
Häftad, 1998
426 kr
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How people perceive wetlands has always played a crucial role in determining how people act toward them. In this account, Hugh Prince examines literary evidence as well as government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes toward wetlands in the American Midwest. As …
Steamer Parish
The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier
Inbunden, 2004
1068 kr
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In the mid-1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). Inspired by Dr. David Livingstone, they felt a special calling to bring the Church, education, and medical care to rural Africans. To deliver services across a huge, remote area, the UMCA relied …
After a California Earthquake
Attitude and Behavior Change
Av Risa Palm, Michael E. Hodgson
Häftad, 1992
323 kr
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Shortly before the Loma Prieta earthquake devastated areas of Northern California in 1989, Risa Palm and her associates had surveyed 2,500 homeowners in the area about their perception of risk from earthquakes. After the quake they surveyed the homeowners again and found that their perception of …
