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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Lands of darkness and light — Myth and history: the polar regions up to 1800 — Scarcity and abundance: marine exploitation — Nature conquered, nature unconquered: polar exploration — Dreams and realities: economic development — War and peace: the Cold War — Exploitation and preservation: environmental conflict — Conclusion: Geographies of despair and hope.
• The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted measures of environmental protection. They are places where people have sought to conquer nature through exploration and economic development, but in many ways they remain wild and untamed. They are the coldest places on Earth, yet have come to occupy an important role in the science and politics of global warming. Despite being located at opposite ends of the planet and being significantly different in many ways, Adrian Howkins argues that the environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica share much in common and have often been closely connected. This book also argues that the Polar Regions are strongly linked to the rest of the world, both through physical processes and through intellectual and political themes. As places of inherent contradiction, the Polar Regions have much to contribute to the way we think about environmental history and the environment more generally — Provided by publisher.

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• Human ecology — Polar regions — History.
• Polar regions — Environmental conditions.
• Polar regions — Climate.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
• Slavery heritage and the call to home : diasporan travel to Ghana — The development of Ghana’s heritage tourism — Culture brokers at the front lines : tour guides at Cape Coast and Elmina castles interpret the slave story — Visitors’ perspectives at Cape Coast castle and Elmina castle: slave trade memoryscapes and ideoscapes — The performance of public discourse : slavery heritage and One Africa ideoscapes produced by locals — Foreigner or family? Ghanaian interpretations of the One Africa ideoscape — Slavery heritage tourism, the African family, and the politics of memory.

Subjects:

• Heritage tourism — Ghana.
• African Americans — Travel — Ghana.
• Ghana — Description and travel.
• Slave trade — Ghana — History.
• African diaspora.
• Historic buildings — Ghana.
• Ghana. fast (OCoLC)fst01208741
• Ghana. (DE-588)4020949-0 gnd
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences — Sightseeing and Social Structure — The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure — The Other Attractions — Staged Authenticity — A Semiotic of Attraction — The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers — Structure, Genuine and Spurious — On Theory, Methods and Application.

Subjects:

• Leisure.
• Travelers.
• Tourism.
• Civilization, Modern.

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• Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes – a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her – and her gilded passengers – to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. Now, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania’s passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous rarely was a ship so magnificent and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Lusitania (Steamship)
• Shipwreck victims — North Atlantic Ocean — Anecdotes.
• Ocean travel — Anecdotes.
• Upper class — Social life and customs — 20th century.
• Upper class — United States — Biography.
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• North Atlantic Ocean. fast (OCoLC)fst01242477
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• Anecdotes. fast (OCoLC)fst01423876
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686

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• Introduction — Science: Ptolemy’s ‘Geography,’ c. AD 150 — Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 — Faith: Hereford ‘Mappamundi,’ c. 1300 — Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 — Discovery: Martin Waldseemüller, World Map, 1507 — Globalism: Diogo Ribeiro, World Map, 1529 — Toleration: Gerard Mercator, World Map, 1569 — Money: Joan Blaeu, ‘Atlas maior,’ 1662 — Nation: The Cassini Family, Map of France, 1793 — Geopolitics: Halford Mackinder, ‘The Geographical Pivot of History,’ 1904 — Equality: The Peters Projection, 1973 — Information: Google Earth, 2012 — Conclusion: The eye of history?
• Argues that, far from being purely objective documents, maps are profoundly subjective expressions of the people who crate them and are intimately tied to the views and agendas of particular times and places.
• A fascinating look at twelve maps–from Ancient Greece to Google Earth–and how they changed our world In this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history’s most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen. Starting with Ptolemy, father of modern geography, and ending with satellite cartography, A History of the World in Twelve Maps brings maps from classical Greece, Renaissance Europe, and the Islamic and Buddhist worlds to life and reveals their influence on how we-literally-look at our present world. As Brotton shows, the long road to our present geographical reality was rife with controversy, manipulation, and special interests trumping science. Through the centuries maps have been wielded to promote any number of imperial, religious, and economic agendas, and have represented the idiosyncratic and uneasy fusion of science and subjectivity. Brotton also conjures the worlds that produced these notable works of cartography and tells the stories of those who created, used, and misused them for their own ends — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-482) and index.

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• Cartography — History.
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Origins : introduction and environmental overview — Encounters : prehistory and early history to 1500 CE — Incursions : 1500 to 1800 — Crusades : 1800 to 1914 — Subjugations : 1914 to 1945 — Contaminations : 1945 to 1991 — Extinctions? : 1991 to the present.

Subjects:

• Arctic regions — History.
• Geopolitics — Arctic regions.
• Arctic regions — Discovery and exploration — History.
• Arctic peoples.
• Arctic regions — Environmental conditions.
• Climatic changes — Arctic regions.
• Natural resources — Arctic regions — Management.
• Arctic regions — Climate.

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• Reduced reprints of maps originally published 16th-20th century.
• Includes bibliographical references (page 267).
• Códices — Mundiales — Continentales — Costas — Nacionales — Regionales — Locales — Divisiones territoriales — Históricos — Especiales.

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• Mexico — Maps.
• Cartography — Mexico — History.
• Maps — Facsimiles.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-311) and index.
• 1. Environment and Territory — 2. People and Places: The Patterns of Cultural Change — 3. Colonial Societies — 4. Formation of National Societies — 5. Challenge of Development.
• The first two sections of the atlas review five centuries of territorial organization, demography, and culture. The final three sections focus on the economic, political, and social issues specific to each century, beginning with the colonial period and continuing to the present day. Illustrated with more than 150 color and black-and-white illustrations and almost 400 original full-color maps accompanied by explanatory and interpretive text, the Historical Atlas of Central America will serve as a landmark for future studies. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• Central America — Historical geography — Maps.
• Central America — History.
• Reference resource.
• Reference works. lcgft

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Mapping the skies: prehistory [to] 1515 CE — Roads, rivers, and routes: 3000 BCE to 1300 CE — Mapping the world 600 BCE [to] c. 1450 CE — An expanding world, 1300 CE [to] 1570 CE — Worlds colliding, c. 1550 [to] c. 1800 CE — Land surveys, c. 800 [to] 1800 CE — Mapping the natural world, 1800 [to] 2000 — Empires, wars, and decolonization, 1884 [to] 1999 — Mapping transport and communication networks, 1884 [to] 2006.
• Bringing together a rich and diverse collection of 100 historical maps from the Paleolithic to the present, The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History illustrates how peoples and cultures throughout the human past have imagined their worlds.

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• Historical geography — Maps.
• World history — Maps.
• World maps.
• Atlases.
• World atlases. lcgft

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• Chorography reconsidered : an alternative approach to the Ptolemaic definition / Jesse Simon — Geography and memory in Isidore’s Etymologies / Andy Merrills — The uses of classical history and geography in medieval St. Gall / Natalia Lozovsky — The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon / Amanda Power — Reflections in the Ebstorf Map : cartography, theology and dilectio speculationis / Marcia Kupfer — ‘After poyetes and astronomyers’ : English geographical thought and early English print / Meg Roland — Displacing Ptolemy? : the textual geographies of Ramusio’s Navigazioni e viaggi / Margaret Small — Gaul undivided : cartography, geography, and identity in France at the time of the Hundred Years War / Camille Serchuk — Passion and conflict : medieval Islamic views of the West / Karen C. Pinto — Hereford maps, Hereford lives : biography and cartography in an English cathedral city / Daniel Birkholz — Shifting geographies of antisemitism : mapping Jew and Christian in Thomas of Monmouth’s Life and miracles of St. William of Norwich / Kathy Lavezzo — Gardens of Eden and ladders to heaven : holy mountain geographies in Byzantium / Veronica Della Dora — Journeying to the world’s end? : imagining the Anglo-Irish frontier in Ramon de Perellós’s Pilgrimage to St. Patrick’s Purgatory / Sara V. Torres.
• Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations that is to say, those ‘imagined geographies’ that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellectual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essential reading for scholars concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption. –Publisher’s description.

Subjects:

• Geography, Medieval.
• Geography in literature.
• Cartography — Early works to 1800.

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