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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Hinterland"”.
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Rajgir and Its Hinterland
This thesis is based on an archaeological survey of Rajgir, onetime capital of Magadha and one of the most important Early Historic urban sites. Its principal conclusions are: 1. The "walls" are more walkways than defensive structures and it's clear they were used as such during the first …
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Infrastructural opportunism inhabiting the Los Angeles hinterland
Los Angeles is a vast, dense, and notorious city that overshadows the individualities of its outlying territories. California is likewise divided between urban center and middle land, with inland acting as producer and collector, and coast as consumer. However, there is the potential in this middle …
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Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science
This dissertation is an exploration of the hinterland of science and the strange ‘creatures’ dwelling there. In philosophical circles, the subject of pseudoscience has stirred relatively little philosophical excitement. The demarcation project has fallen on hard times, and many philosophers have …
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The Settlement Patterns and Social Power of Cahokia's Hinterland Households
Recent archaeological fieldwork in the American Bottom has yielded a large amount of new data on the prehistoric farmsteads that surrounded the mound centers there. These data are synthesized here in a settlement study of building, household, and village organization. During late prehistory (A.D. …
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Voices from the Hinterland: lesbian women's experience of Irish health care
There is a lack of knowledge about lesbian women's lives and social experiences in Irish society. Lesbian women's invisibility is reinforced and permeated in all ocial institutions in society such as religion, education and the family. This thesis eals with the nature of being-in-the-world of …
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Fatores críticos de sucesso para o desenvolvimento do hinterland de SUAPE
… que contribuíram para o desenvolvimento do hinterland de tais portos; c) elencar os fatores críticos para se obter sucesso no desenvolvimento a partir de Suape. A fundamentação teórica utilizada baseou-se em inovação, redes e alianças estratégicas e educação, categorias formadas a partir do …
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'Der ganze Südosten ist unser Hinterland': deutsche Südosteuropapläne von 1840 bis 1945
Mit der Untersuchung von Klaus Thörner liegt erstmals eine Analyse vor, die die deutschen Südosteuropakonzepte und deren ideologischen Legitimationsmuster vom Kaiserreich über die Weimarer Republik bis in den Nationalsozialismus im Zusammenhang darstellt und der Frage nach Kontinuität in den …
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Prosperity and decline under the Qing : Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644-1810
… of the relationship between this city and its hinterland. These questions are considered within the time frame provided by the growth and decline of Yangzhou in the Qing dynasty. Chapter 1 is devoted to a survey of the city's earlier history up to the beginning of the Qing dynasty, and …
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Prosperity and decline under the Qing : Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644-1810
… of the relationship between this city and its hinterland. These questions are considered within the time frame provided by the growth and decline of Yangzhou in the Qing dynasty. Chapter 1 is devoted to a survey of the city's earlier history up to the beginning of the Qing dynasty, and …
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The Eventuality of Space : Adaptability and Incrementality in the Suburban Hinterland of Mamelodi
The appropriation of open space is a common and organic process that is constantly taking place in the contemporary South African city. The tabula rasa approach of Apartheid and modernist planning had little consideration for these natural spatial patterns. This dissertation argues for a democratic …
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Petra's Hinterland from the Nabataean through Early Byzantine Periods (ca. 63 BC-AD 500).
North Carolina State University Theses History.
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Descentralización metropolitana y desarrollo local El caso de Castilla y León en el hinterland madrileño
La presente investigación sobre Descentralización Metropolitana y Desarrollo Local, enmarcada dentro de la problemática que se integra en las disciplinas académicas de Ordenación del Territorio, Geografía de la Localización Industrial y la Economía Regional, trata de los desequilibrios espaciales …
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A Port and Its Hinterland: An Environmental History of Izmir in the Late-Ottoman Period
… thanks to the human and natural resources in its hinterland, grew rapidly in export trade and evolved into a gateway city, linking the fertile Western Anatolian valleys to world markets. By discussing the economic and ecological transformations in the Western Anatolian countryside, this …
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A multi-technique provenance study of the Oligocene : recent Nile cone sediments and River Nile hinterland
… input of mafic material being received from the hinterland. The Ethiopian Large Igneous Province represents the only possible source for this detritus, indicating that the Nile has been connected to the Ethiopian Highlands since this time. Zircons with U-Pb ages and hafnium isotope signatures …
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Circulation of copper and copper alloys in hinterland southern Africa: material evidence from Great Zimbabwe (1000-1700CE)
This dissertation seeks to establish the possible provenance of copper and copper alloys used at Great Zimbabwe (1000-1700CE) to infer local and regional circulation circuits. It employs archaeological, archival, and geochemical methods to characterize samples of 26 wound wire bracelets, bangles, …
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