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Geographical Inquiry and American Historical Problems
ISBN: 9780804715751 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twelve essays in this volume re-examine a handful of perennial problems in American history from a geographical point of view. From this perspective there emerges a series of reinterpretations of the central processes that defined the American experience, whether of colonization, of regional development and sectionalism, of slavery and freedom, of urbanization and industrialization, or of working-class history. The essays encompass the first three centuries of American history, beginning with the nightmarish world of disease and death that was early Virginia and ending with the melancholy...
The twelve essays in this volume re-examine a handful of perennial problems in American history from a geographical point of view. From this perspecti...
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410,56 zł |
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Historical Atlas of Washington
ISBN: 9780806121086 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 77 maps and accompanying texts, this atlas presents the history of Washington state from prehistoric times to the present, Beginning with Washington's terrain climate, vegetation, and hydrography, it then displays and records the evolution of both Indian and white settlements, the development of the state's modern economy, and the progress of society and culture from Indian times to the present. Some of the maps in the atlas cover major historical events or specific periods; other show present-day patterns of activity and deal with the historical background in the accompanying... In 77 maps and accompanying texts, this atlas presents the history of Washington state from prehistoric times to the present, Beginning with Washin... |
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189,01 zł |
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Historical Atlas of Kansas, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780806124858 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition of Historical "Atlas of Kansas" has been updated from 1984 states-federal estimates. New and revised maps show the important growth in population centers in all parts of the state and the changes in congressional and judicial districts, railroads, airline routes, employment, petroleum and groundwater, agriculture, and colleges and universities. The text accompanying these maps has been updated also. A proper knowledge of the long and eventful history of Kansas requires an understanding of the state s geography. While the place called Kansas was originally the home of... This second edition of Historical "Atlas of Kansas" has been updated from 1984 states-federal estimates. New and revised maps show the important gr... |
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147,97 zł |
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Historical Atlas of Colorado
ISBN: 9780806125916 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique historical atlas will help you to comprehend quickly Colorado's geography and its fascinating past--from the prehistoric Indian cultures to the modern metropolises, from the Spanish and French explorers to the modern ski resorts. The full-page, clearly drawn maps and the lively text provide easy access to the essential information about the Highest State. Colorado's history has been played out on a spectacular landscape. The highest mountains of the continental divide cut the state in half with a two-mile-high barrier. This rocky obstacle long served as a tribal and... This unique historical atlas will help you to comprehend quickly Colorado's geography and its fascinating past--from the prehistoric Indian culture... |
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164,44 zł |
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Historical Atlas of Central America
ISBN: 9780806130385 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Central America has been a region of global importance since it was first explored by the Spanish early in the sixteenth century. Yet this mosaic of seven states, extending from Guatemala and Belize to Panama, remains one of the least known regions of Latin America. Drawing on more than fifty combined years of research and teaching in Central America, Carolyn Hall and Hector Perez Brignoli provide a new interpretation and an innovative synthesis of the region's history and culture in the Historical Atlas of Central America. The first two sections of the atlas review five centuries... Central America has been a region of global importance since it was first explored by the Spanish early in the sixteenth century. Yet this mosaic o... |
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280,82 zł |
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The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
ISBN: 9780807856727 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.
Drawing on historical... The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. ...
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205,89 zł |
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Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity
ISBN: 9780813530734 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. Cartographic Fictions looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje. In her innovative study, Karen Piper follows the history of cartography through three stages: the establishment of the prime meridian, the development of aerial photography, and the emergence of satellite and computer mapping.Piper follows the cartographer's...
Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisi...
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161,10 zł |
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Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600
ISBN: 9780815630234 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the globe navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created and a cartographic literacy was established in the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, state, and city. Short establishes that such spatial revisioning is connected to the...
In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way ...
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158,51 zł |
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Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
ISBN: 9780822334057 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such routines were part of a federal obsession--or -state fixation---with determining and -fixing- geographic points, lines, and names in order to facilitate economic development and political administration. As well as analyzing the maps that resulted from such routines, Craib examines in close detail the processes that eventually generated them. Taking...
In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played ...
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462,54 zł |
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Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
ISBN: 9780822334163 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such routines were part of a federal obsession--or -state fixation---with determining and -fixing- geographic points, lines, and names in order to facilitate economic development and political administration. As well as analyzing the maps that resulted from such routines, Craib examines in close detail the processes that eventually generated them. Taking...
In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played ...
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119,48 zł |
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Operation Epsom
ISBN: 9780850529548 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Operation EPSOM was Montgomerys third attempt to take the city of Caen, which was a key British D-Day objective. This book takes us through the actions in vivid detail. Delayed by a storm, the attack, designed to envelop Caen from the west, eventually began at the end of June 1944.The Territorial Army battalions of 15th Scottish Division spearheaded the attacks through the well developed positions of 12th
Operation EPSOM was Montgomerys third attempt to take the city of Caen, which was a key British D-Day objective. This book takes us through the action...
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60,12 zł |
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Historical Atlas of South-West England
ISBN: 9780859894340 / Angielski / Twarda / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first historical atlas of a major region of the United Kingdom. Its aim is to create and communicate the history of the South-Western peninsula of England-Cornwall, Devon and the Isles of Scilly - from the beginnings of man's occupation to the present day. The cartographic message projected by around 400 maps is extended by a substantial text of about 250,000 words as well as diagrams, contemporary prints and photographs. This is one of the most substantial collaborative cartographic ventures undertaken in the United Kingdom. There are more than fifty contributors, about half of...
This is the first historical atlas of a major region of the United Kingdom. Its aim is to create and communicate the history of the South-Western peni...
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571,67 zł |
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Merriam-Webster's Notebook Atlas
ISBN: 9780877796527 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical quick-reference guide offers an up-to-date look at the places and physical features of the modern world. Put this essential reference into your three-ring binder and you'll be able to consult its richly detailed color maps wherever you go. The notebook-style reference includes dozens of detailed, full-color maps and an index to nearly 10,000 key locations around the world.
This practical quick-reference guide offers an up-to-date look at the places and physical features of the modern world. Put this essential reference i...
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21,57 zł |
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Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps
ISBN: 9780917860478 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To celebrate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) has pursued the ambitious goal of publishing an atlas that depicts Louisiana's history through maps. The result of those efforts is Charting Louisiana. This book, THNOC's bicentennial gift to the public, offers a rich selection of historic and contemporary maps from various sources that collectively illustrates the region's diverse history, from its multinational colonial experiences to the modern American state. the full range of the institution's cartographic treasures. The atlas also...
To celebrate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) has pursued the ambitious goal of publishing an a...
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457,54 zł |
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia
ISBN: 9781403975423 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.
This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongo...
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308,41 zł |
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An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History
ISBN: 9781563243349 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Will delight the visual learner. ... For the college student, the general reader, and the merely curious". -- American Reference Book Annual
"Schmidt has filled a large gap. ... Superior quality, wide coverage, and considerable excellence". -- Journal of World History "Will delight the visual learner. ... For the college student, the general reader, and the merely curious". -- American Reference Book Annual
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280,58 zł |
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An Historical Atlas of Central Asia
ISBN: 9789004123212 / Angielski / Twarda / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yuri Bregel's Atlas provides us with a bird's eye view of the complicated history of this important part of the Islamic world, which is closely connected with the history of Iran, Afghanistan, China, and Russia; at different times parts of this region were included in these neighboring states, and since 1991 five new independent states emerged in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Covering the 4th century B.C. to the present, the maps show the various political entities, their approximate borders, the major ethnic groups and their...
Yuri Bregel's Atlas provides us with a bird's eye view of the complicated history of this important part of the Islamic world, which is closely...
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969,57 zł |
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Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814
ISBN: 9782894485279 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maps the European quest for a nautical route to the Orient and the shaping of North America.."
Maps the European quest for a nautical route to the Orient and the shaping of North America.."
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431,35 zł |
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The Columbia Gazetteer of the World
ISBN: 9780231145541 / Angielski / Twarda / 4424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With over 170,000 entries, the Columbia Gazetteer of the World is an authoritative A to Z encyclopedia of geographical places and features. Whether you're looking for the ten highest mountain peaks in North America, the major commercial crops in Brazil's economy, all the rivers in Southeast Asia, the former name of the city of Yangon, or the natural resources available in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Gazetteer is the one-stop resource for all your information needs. First published in 1998, the Gazetteer now features new entries and extensive revisions to reflect recent...
With over 170,000 entries, the Columbia Gazetteer of the World is an authoritative A to Z encyclopedia of geographical places and features. Whe...
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3194,77 zł |
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Pocket World Atlas
ISBN: 9780195374537 / Angielski / Other / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A handy pocket-sized book, conveniently bound in a durable yet flexible laminated cover, this new edition of the Pocket World Atlas contains full-color digitally produced maps as well as the latest statistics for countries and cities. The maps are carefully colored to show terrain as well as elevation, and the latest changes to major transportation routes and administrative boundaries are clearly depicted. A 64-page index follows the maps and contains more than 15,000 entries of places and geographical features, and the atlas also boasts such unique features as 24 city plans, a...
A handy pocket-sized book, conveniently bound in a durable yet flexible laminated cover, this new edition of the Pocket World Atlas contains ...
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82,71 zł |
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