Tous les ebooks de la collection "Historical Geography and Geosciences" - Springer

15 Livre(s)
Télécharger le livre : The Hebridean World
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The Hebridean World
Robert Dodgshon
The Hebrides has long been seen as an area that, when considered over time, was slow to absorb change. Indeed, from the nineteenth century onwards, it attracted the attention of scholars for being seen as having not just the oldest rocks in Europe but also, some of its...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-10-23
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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179,34 €
Télécharger le livre : Environment as a Weapon
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Environment as a Weapon
Charles Travis
Environment as a Weapon  considers how the confluence of war and nature from the time of the Agricultural Revolution (10,000 BCE) to our present day has been represented in works of history, geography, and literature. In the Epic of Gilgamesh,  the Torah and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-03-20
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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200,44 €
Télécharger le livre : The History of Mining and Geological Surveys in Jamaica
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The History of Mining and Geological Surveys in Jamaica
Suresh Bhalai
Mining and geological survey work in Jamaica goes back several hundred years and was initiated by the Europeans when they colonized the Island. The year 2019 marked 160 years since the first Government-commissioned Geological Survey of Jamaica. This is one of the oldest...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-10-24
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border
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Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border
Gianfranco Battisti , Christian Sellar
This book presents the work of Gianfranco Battisti, on Geopolitics and Border Geographies in north-eastern Italy, Europeanization, and Globalization, contributing to debates on the inclusion of non-English speaking scholars in international geography. It highlights the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-04-13
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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168,79 €
Télécharger le livre : The History of the East Sea and the Sea of Japan
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The History of the East Sea and the Sea of Japan
Jeongbo Shim
This monograph discusses the dispute in geographical naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, which has been a long-lasting issue in East Asia and beyond. The book covers the modern history of the dispute, reveals the origin of the names for the sea between Korea and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-09-07
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Beneath the Lines
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Beneath the Lines
Jacobo García-Álvarez , Paloma Puente-Lozano
This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-05-03
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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137,14 €
Télécharger le livre : The Coldest Coast
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The Coldest Coast
P. J. Capelotti
This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-06-15
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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168,79 €
Télécharger le livre : The Historical Geography of Croatia
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The Historical Geography of Croatia
Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš , Nikola Glamuzina
This monograph gives a comprehensive but in-depth analysis of the territorial development of Croatia and historical processes of significant spatial impact. It covers the millennial time span – from prehistory till the present, through relevant periods, e.g.,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-03-28
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Decolonising and Internationalising Geography
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Decolonising and Internationalising Geography
Federico Ferretti , André Reyes Novaes , Bruno Schelhaas , Marcella Schmidt Di Friedberg
International scholarship is increasingly aware that the ‘geographical tradition’ is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-07-30
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis
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Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis
Ferenc Gyuris , Francis Ludlow , Charles Travis
This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other’s disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase 'Hic sunt dracones' ('Here be dragons'), warning sailors of the dangers...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-02-29
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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168,79 €
Télécharger le livre : Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500–1914
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Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500–1914
Robert Dodgshon
This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-05-24
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : The Oil of Brazil
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The Oil of Brazil
Drielli Peyerl
This book investigates the role of the National Petroleum Council (CNP) and especially of Petrobras in the construction and shaping of courses in Geosciences, as part of the historical process of the search for and exploration of oil, which began in Brazil in 1864 and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-05-22
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : History, Exploration & Exploitation of Oil and Gas
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History, Exploration & Exploitation of Oil and Gas
Silvia Fernanda Figueirôa , Gregory A. Good , Drielli Peyerl
This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts. The search for oil for industrial uses began in the nineteenth century, the first drills made in Azerbaijan and the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-04-02
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : The Genesis of Geopolitics and Friedrich Ratzel
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The Genesis of Geopolitics and Friedrich Ratzel
Alexandros Stogiannos
This book discusses the influence of Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in more contemporary geopolitical analytical systems and the geodeterminism commonly attributed to him. The author thoroughly analyzes the structural components of Ratzel's thought. The research is...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-29
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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158,24 €
Télécharger le livre : Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980
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Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980
Yinong Cheng , Xiaobin Jin , Xuhong Yang , Yinkang Zhou
This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-12-15
Collection : Historical Geography and Geosciences
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94,94 €