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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography
This book is a publication of the Danish-Dutch-Ukrainian survey
project carried out between 2006 and 2008. The project introduced
the systematic, intensive survey to the region. It took place at
both sides of Lake Darylga? that is the hinterland of the ancient
Greek settlement of Panskoe I in the Tarchankut Peninsula (Western
Crimea). The survey aimed at investigating the landscape from
prehistory until early modern times. We could conclude that the
region was most intensively settled in the Late Classical and Early
Hellenistic period. The results were spectacular: a large number of
undisturbed Greek and barbarian sites were located, which have
completely changed our understanding of ancient settlement patterns
in the region.Contributors: Peter Attema, Pia Guldager Bilde, Tymon
de Haas, Sen Handberg, Marlies van Kruining, Wieke de Neef, Sergei
Lancov, Cornelius Meyer, Dana Pilz, Tatiana Smekalova, Vladimir
Stolba, Kees van der Veer, Christina Williamson, and Kristina
Winther-Jacobsen.
Richard L. Nostrand interprets the Hispanos' experience in
geographical terms. He demonstrates that their unique intermixture
with Pueblo Indians, nomad Indians, Anglos, and Mexican Americans,
combined with isolation in their particular natural and cultural
environments, have given them a unique sense of place - a sense of
homeland.
Several processes shaped and reshaped the Hispano Homeland.
Initial colonization left the Hispanos relatively isolated from
cultural changes in the rest of New Spain, and gradual
intermarriage with Pueblo and nomad Indians gave them new cultural
features. As their numbers increased in the eighteenth century,
they began to expand their Stronghold outward from the original
colonies.
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula,
Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the
large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in
agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to
understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence
of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins,
which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for
people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers.
In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities
to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book
synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and
ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian
Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the
limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to
complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that
is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes
significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery
and to the environmental history of the Middle East-an area that
has thus far received little attention from scholars.
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 36 focuses on
20th-century Britain and 19th- and 20th-century France. Six essays
on individual geographers are complemented by a group article which
describes the building of a French school of geography. From
Britain, the life of Sir Peter Hall, one of the most distinguished
geographers of recent times and a man widely known outside the
discipline, is set alongside memoirs of Bill Mead, who made the
rich geography of the Nordic countries come alive to geographers
and others in the Anglophone world; Michael John Wise and Stanley
Henry Beaver, who made their mark through building up the
institutions where academic geography was practised and through
teaching; and Anita McConnell, whose geographical training shaped
her museum curation and studies of the history of science. From
France, the individual biography of Andre Meynier is juxtaposed
with group article on the first five professors of geography at
Clermont-Ferrand. These intellectual biographies collectively show
geography and geographers profoundly affected by wider historical
events: the effect of war, particularly the Second World War, and
the shaping of post-war society. They show the value of
geographical scholarship in elucidating local circumstances and in
planning national conditions, and as a basis for local, national,
and international friendship.
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