Historical Map Archives Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (utexas) -- Historical map archive also with a lengthy list of links; includes regional collections: Africa -- The Americas -- Asia -- Australia & the Pacific -- Europe -- The Middle East -- Russia and the Former Soviet Re...
At this stage, it is possible that parts of China were still on a par with the richest parts of Europe, but by 1750 the gap was too large to be bridged by regional variation within China and the Great Divergence had already begun before the Industrial Revolution....
Ramsay's map, whose textual commentary begins ‘America is transplanted Europe’, shows the republic on one side, with a complex colour-coded ‘Historical and Biographical Chart of the United States’, with a timeline culminating in independence, with ‘the nation born at once’. Alluding to ...
E-OBS is a high-resolution daily gridded (0.25 degrees) land-only observational dataset over Europe generated through the interpolation of data recorded at meteorological stations. The terrain of the Sillaro River basin encompasses three of such grid cells (Fig. A.4). In this work, we have ...
Archaeologists in Europe have noted how hunter-gatherer societies often developed a symbolic “rejection” of agricultural world-views even when they were in close contact with Neolithic farmers (Zvelebil 2008: 57). Although the Ainu borrowed many ritual practices and vocabulary from ancient Japan (...
nuttallii, often co-occurring, and cases of intra-individual heterophylly were also reported; one morphotype has short and curved leaves, the other has long and flat or more or less twisted leaves (Banfi and Galasso 2010). In Europe, the latter was sometimes interpreted as a separate species...
A high-resolution and harmonized model approach for reconstructing and analyzing historic land changes in Europe. Biogeosciences Discussions 9 (2012). Dupouey, J. L. et al. Irreversible impact of past land use on forest soils and biodiversity. Ecology 83, 2978–2984 (2002). Google Scholar ...
In Europe, this included East Germany, which experienced an uprising in 1953. The East German conflict went from a strike by construction workers to widespread antigovernment unrest in June 1953. To bring the uprising to an end, the Soviet Union responded militarily; as a result...
Part of the book series:Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History((CIH)) 117Accesses Abstract As proposed at the end of the Introduction, before any attempt to analyze the German reception of Robertson’s individual texts, it is indispensable to take a more general look at the vario...
Prior to its whaling role, the vessel operated as a Falmouth packet, and was later used to transport free settlers from Europe to the fledgling British colony of South Australia, which had been proclaimed at Holdfast Bay (modern-day Glenelg) in December 1836. South Australian is South ...