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Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland
This book is one of the outcomes of the project Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia (http://www.cultivated-wilderness.org/). The project has particularly focused on the previously relatively unknown prehistory of the Amazonian hinterland. Our work has revealed that pre-Columbian settlements in the Santarém region in the State of …
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789185245607, 9789185245666
- Collation
- 129
- Series Title
- GOTARC series A, 6
- Call Number
- 930.1 BEY b
Mystifying the Monarch: Studies on Discourse, Power, and History
The history of kings and queens has always appealed to popular imagery. Monarchy is also a central theme to classic surveys of political history. The present volume approaches the relation between imagery and authority of the monarchy from a cultural historical angle. The authors focus on the different discourses produced since the Middle Ages aiming at the symbolic construction of royal power …
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 296
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- -
- Call Number
- 900 MYS s
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and t…
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism planning. This book unpacks the beginnings of World Heritage in development thinking and the significance of national heritage for developing countries in a global context d…
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 204
- Series Title
- Africa in Global History, 1
- Call Number
- 909.82 HUB d
Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods ; Commagene in its Local, Regional and …
The history and archaeology of Hellenistic Commagene is a rich field of study, not in the least because of the remarkable monuments and inscriptions of king Antiochos I (c. 70–36 BC). Over the last decades important new work has been done on Commagene proper, providing novel interpretations of the epigraphical and historical record or the archaeological data and individual sites, like Nemrud …
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- 9783515129268
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- -
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- Call Number
- 900
Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India A …
This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state of Arunachal Pradesh is located in the northeastern part of India, surrounded by the borders of Assam, Bhutan, and Tibet (Ch…
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- -
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- 978-4-431-55491-2
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- XIV, 196
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- -
- Call Number
- 910
Henbury Craters and Meteorites Their Discovery, History and Study
In 1931, the cluster of craters at Henbury Cattle Station south of Alice Springs in Central Australia was one of the first places on Earth where a group of impact structures could definitely be linked to the fall of iron meteorites. It was also the first place where radial rays and loops of ejected rock material, comparable to those seen around craters on the Moon, were observed. As such it was…
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- 978-3-319-03954-1
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- XIII, 160
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- -
- Call Number
- 900
Excavating the Future : Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North Ame…
Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds.’ But more than a well-spring for SF scenarios, the genre’s archaeological imaginary invites us to consider the ideological implications of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of very…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781786941190
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
- Call Number
- 900 MAL e
Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the histo…
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- 9781911576570
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- -
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- -
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- 900 HIS h
Governing Metropolitan Transport Institutional Solutions for Policy Problems
This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport. It opens by examining the main arguments for the establishment of metropolitan transport authorities. The potential impacts of institutional change on the policy efficiency of institutions are then examined. Key problems for institutional designers are identified, showing how they can …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-10658-8
- Collation
- XV, 119
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
- Call Number
- 910 BUS g
Living with History, 1914-1964 : Rebuilding Europe after the First and Second…
Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands. This book establishes a status quaestionis for the historiography of wartime and post-war preservation, and sets these particular developments in preservation history in the context of the gen…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789461663962
- Collation
- 392 pages
- Series Title
- KADOC-Artes
- Call Number
- 900 BUL l
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