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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"historical geography"”.
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Historical Geography of Champaign County, Illinois
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A Historical Geography of the Music Industry
Innovative moments in the history of Anglo-American popular music occur at roughly ten year intervals and generally have come from socio-economically disenfranchised groups residing at the geographic periphery of the popular music industry. Before the 1970s, the physical and cultural isolation of …
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Historical Geography of the Brewing Industry: Focus on Wisconsin
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A historical geography of Halley research station, Antarctica, 1956 – present
This thesis investigates the historical geographies of Halley research station, a British research station in East Antarctica. This study is the first in-depth history of Halley station, a site unique even among the already remarkable category of Antarctic research stations. Established for the …
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Timber, trade, and transformation: a historical geography of mahogany in Honduras
… field investigation, this study reconstructs the historical geography of mahogany in Honduras. Focusing on the north coast, its temporal focus stretches from the mid-eighteenth century through the last years of the nineteenth century. This incorporates the earliest stages of the commercial …
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Influence of zoning in the recent historical geography of Glenview, Illinois
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THE URBAN-AGRICULTURAL CITY AS A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: A CASE STUDY OF PHILADELPHIA
This study examines the historical-geographic development of agriculture in Philadelphia in order to better understand the city’s contemporary urban agriculture movement. More specifically, the study provides historical context to the contemporary application of racial justice practices within …
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The Historical Geography of Swiss Settlers at the Red River Colony 1821-1826
<p>Europeans emigrated to the New World for a variety of reasons. The promise of free land and a better life especially lured many Europeans to North America. When going to a new unsettled area, emigrants have a tendency to go in small, isolated cluster groups which share a primary allegiance to a …
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Modeling The Historical Geography Of The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, 1849-1969
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The historical geography of illegitimacy in the Gurk Valley, Austria, c. 1868 to 1945
… of alpine illegitimacy's social and historical meaning rely. A range of qualitative and quantitative methods are employed, spanning statistical analysis of parish records to narrative analysis of oral history interviews to build up a picture of the Gurk valley as a place where …
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Transport and Trade in South Wales c.1100 - c.1400: A Study in Historical Geography
Enquiries into the medieval history of south Wales have in the past tended to focus on the 'soap opera' history of the elite. This thesis differs in that it examines two aspects that are occasionally touched upon, and which are inextricably linked, but rarely considered in detail: namely the system …
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Stepping in Time and Space with Circum-Atlantic Performance: A Cultural and Historical Geography of Tap Dance
This thesis explores the cultural and historical geographies of dance, offering the first geographical inquiry into the largely overlooked circum-Atlantic histories of tap dance. It explores cultural geographical themes of movement, embodiment, and rhythm, within tap’s significant transatlantic …
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Gaseous State: A Historical Geography of Natural Gas and the Capitalist State in an Age of Climate Change
<p>In the 1930s U.S., a set of social forces and crises pushed forward state energy regulation. As states struggle to end greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil fuels, the threat of climate change demands new explanations for how energy policy emerges. In this dissertation, I explain the period of …
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A spatiotemporal analysis of Army base distributions in the contiguous United States from 1800 to 1900
… to capture the essence of this interesting historical geography. In order to address this shortcoming in the geographical literature it was necessary to establish some rational points of reference to compare fort and personnel attributes of significant timeframes from 1800 to 1900. More …
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