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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Geographic History"”.
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Identifying predictors of evolutionary dispersion with phylogeographic generalised linear models
Discrete phylogeographic models enable the inference of the geographic history of biological organisms along phylogenetic trees. Frequently applied in the context of epidemiological modelling, phylogeographic generalised linear models were developed to allow for the evaluation of multiple …
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Some Barriers to Development in Cameroon, Kenya and Swaziland
… country. Each country's political, economic, and geographic history is discussed to provide a context for the present-day situation. The research then examined how a variety of decisions made by each country's leaders has shaped the ability of young children to attend school as well as shaping …
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Isthmuses, Empires, and Internationality, c.1850-1924
… of European and North American imperial geographic imaginations, isthmuses constituted barriers to maritime navigation and everything that mobility entailed including the circulation of people and goods. Transisthmian projects had consequences for international trade, diplomacy, and …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
"This dissertation is a geographic and environmental history of Soviet state building that examines how the Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic was made. In the mid-1920s, the USSR created republics in Central Asia that endure today as nation states. Tajikistan, however, lay on land that is almost …