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DK Puiblishing ; Smithsonian
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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More than 140 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the space race. Custom regional and global maps present the history of the world in action, charting how events traced patterns on land and ocean--patterns of exploration, discovery, or conquest that created empires, colonies, or theaters of war. Thoughtful organization of information will help you follow the story of civilizations...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.
In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries...
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Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Presents a collection of original maps and historic illustrations to document the exploration of North America. Map researcher Derek Hayes applies his signature approach to a collection of maps that trace the discovery, exploration, and settlement of North America from 1000 A.D. to the present. Rich narratives make over 300 beautiful maps come alive, with North America's coasts, waterways, prairies, and peaks freshly described by explorers such as...
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English
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A comprehensive collection of Civil War maps and battle plans that brought Union and Confederate forces to the largest battle ever fought on American soil. Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg-but the military operation itself remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Here, Bradley M. Gottfried gives readers a unique and thorough study of the campaign that decided the fate of a nation. Enriched with...
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Español
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A fines del siglo pasado se inició una especie de diáspora desde lo geográfico hacia otras áreas disciplinares y, al mismo tiempo, una diversificación de las líneas de investigación que tradicionalmente abordó la geografía. Este libro es un ejemplo de los mencionados esfuerzos de expansión del campo de estudio de la disciplina, pese a que la religión fue tema de estudio en los inicios de la geografía cultural decimonónica, cuestión que...
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English
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The 50 or so mysterious Pictish symbols and the stones displaying them have become central to all discussion of the Picts. Generations of scholars have sought to interpret the symbols with little agreement. This book takes an indirect approach to the situation. The present layout of Class I stones hints at an arrangement in chains in which adjacent stones in a chain are linked by a common symbol. This is investigated and the chains identified. Between...
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Español
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Actores y espacios de la Geografía y la Historia Natural, siglos XVIII-XX se propone reflexionar sobre la conformación del devenir de ambas ciencias en las ciudades y regiones de la Nueva España y la República Mexicana. En cada uno de los capítulos se pone de manifiesto la peculiaridad del conocimiento científico y las prácticas locales en el periodo de estudio. Para ello se abordarán algunas de las iniciativas desarrolladas por las élites...
16) Piedras sagradas
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Español
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Cuando el hombre encuentra lugares donde detecta la presencia de algo extraño que le provoca toda clase de sentimientos y sensaciones, atribuye su poder a seres extrahumanos, ya sean benignos o malignos. La mayoría de los lugares donde el hombre se encuentra con sus dioses han sido construidos con piedras...Piedras Sagradas.
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English
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The Great White Hunter-Southern Africa is the third and final book of the Dutch Century Trilogy. It covers the last two-thirds of the 1600s, during which the Dutch exercised considerable control of all sub-Saharan Africa. Among the Dutch who spent significant portions of their lives in the region were farmers, traders, builders, mariners, and slavers. And, most interesting, some intrepid long-distance hunters. They sought fortunes as rewards for museum-quality...
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English
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Entre 1963 y 1980, Horacio Serrano publicó cerca de mil notas y columnas en el diario El Mercurio. Esta selección rescata los principales ejes temáticos de esos escritos: Chile y los chilenos, el legado cultural clásico, la sabiduría oriental, nuestra confusa e incipiente modernización y el mundo de la mujer y los sentimientos. Leer a Horacio Serrano es recuperar parte de nuestro paisaje y es volver a preguntarnos por la identidad chilena. Sus...
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Español
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Los procesos hidrológicos que ocurren en zonas de clima mediterráneo despliegan gran parte de su actividad en la capa superior del suelo, la más sensible a los factores y modificaciones externas. Los cambios climáticos predichos para los próximos años en regiones mediterráneas afectarán a la distribución espacio-temporal de la lluvia y a las variaciones térmicas del aire. Estos cambios podrían aumentar la intensidad y duración de los periodos...
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English
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The book describes the worlds oldest human settlements during the rather long and diversified sets of civilizations and cultural epochs in the regions, which are now situated within the territorial limits of Pakistan, and highlights three historical periods, namely (i) the age of neolithic settlements, (ii) the Indus Valley civilization, and (iii) the period of precolonial empires and kingdoms and against this backdrop deals with the human settlements...
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