Historisk geografi

In this illuminating new book, Manchán Magan sets out on a journey in our ancestors' footsteps to uncover the ancient myths and stories that have shaped our national identity, embedded in the strata of land that have endured through millennia - from ice ages through to famines and floods.

Researchers developed cost-estimating tools and estimated future construction costs for Puerto Rico's recovery from Hurricane María. This report documents their approach, data, findings, and recommendations.

"A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London)"Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers at a time of rapid and tense reconfiguration of global geopolitics." (Washington Post)The most admired travel writer of our time?author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet?recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China.The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense border between Russia and China. Simmering with the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on earth. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores, starting out by Mongolian horse, then hitchhiking, sailing on poacher's sloops or travelling the Trans-Siberian Express. Having revived his Russian and Mandarin, he talks to everyone he meets, from Chinese traders to Russian fishermen, from monks to indigenous peoples. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, where Russia's nineteenth-century imperial dream petered out, a whole, pivotal world has come alive. The Amur River is a shining masterpiece by the acknowledged laureate of travel writing, an urgent lesson in history and the culmination of an astonishing career.

From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our everyday lives. United by their pursuit of a "usable past," the studies in this interdisciplinary collection consider the ecological, social, and economic aspects of urban mobility, showing how historical inquiry can make both conceptual and practical contributions to the projects of sustainability and urban renewal.

Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this ¿ and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything ¿ these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be.

A Case For A True Worldview. The Case for a True Worldview is a historical study of Finland's 500-year History to prove what a morally True Worldview looks like, what it is, and how it can be attained. Also presenting evidence of the immoral and erroneous Worldview.There are over 500 years of documented European History, immoral Worldviews. The anarchy, rebellion, lawlessness, dubiousness, violation of human rights, war crimes, atrocities, despotism, and genocide. Why is the last 120-year European History so destructive and abhorrently violent?A similar question can be asked about water, why are large waves, floods, and Tsunamis so destructive? They are destructive because of the out of control momentum of a large mass of water. Water can be put into motion in various ways by the elements of nature that release a powerful water mass momentum. The power of water can also be harnessed and channeled into a productive generation of energy. People are motivated and moved by information; many individual people do not know or have considered a well defined True Worldview. Therefore when they join a momentum, they have no idea whether it will develop into a wave, out of control flood, or destructive Tsunami. Out of control, people's movements in the last 120 years, History has always been mindless and devastatingly destructive. Because the people movement or leaders were not conforming to principles of the Natural Law. Rebellion and anarchy is no way to make the World a better place. The World's root problem is individual people that do not conform to the principles of the Spirit of the Natural Law.The wheel cannot be reinvented after it was discovered. The Ten instructions were given to Moses on Mount Sinai some 3460 years ago. That was a revelation of eternal Laws on the planet earth for human beings made in the image of the Creator of Life. A Case For A True Worldview Book provided clear evidence from the last one hundred twenty years of History that individual people are the cause of destruction. People who do not submit to the moral law principles are the cause of the most destructive damage to humanity. The root cause of destruction is evident. But the counter-arguments against the real revelation are devilish mirrors that lead to endless labyrinths and confusion of the mind. Therefore, they are not controlled by the intelligent mind, for a coherent True Worldview based on moral principles, the rule of law, and true justice. Instead, they are driven by other natural human base motivating drivers. Disconnection in understanding, hypothetical human camps part ways over time. In the worst-case scenario in their own space, conjure up a Worldview according to their convenience. It may be motivated by bitterness, hatred, lust, revenge, or a human lust for conquest over others, while mindless disconnect for moral values and human rights for life, liberty, and property. The vehemently opposing sides with opposing arguments are separated by the construction of their Worldview. When confronted by a more massive nation, the smaller groups of people appeal to the principles of the Spirit of the Natural Law.The more aggressive nation have often spent decades building up their military for the specific purpose of muscling their way against the weaker nations. The evident Worldview conflict then becomes a battle for Worldview domination. Again, the core problem is found at the information level of their Worldview. The idea, the objectives, their motivation, and their understanding of a Worldview. Is it coherent with the Ten instructions given to Moses and the people of Israel 3460 + years ago?

An idiosyncratic look at an American city

Bienville's Dilemma presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Geschichte der Geographie, Note: 2,0, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar "Stadt und Fluss" in Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das von Johann Gottfried Tulla geplante und von seinen Nachfolgern zu Ende geführte Projekt der Rheinbegradigung war ein technisches Großprojekt des 19. Jahrhunderts. Schon zu seiner Zeit war es nicht unumstritten, allerdings überwogen und überwiegen bis heute die positiven Beurteilungen. Wie bei allen Großprojekten es gibt es auch heute Befürworter und Gegner, Gewinner und Verlierer. Zu den Verlierern zu gehören, befürchtete das linksrheinische Speyer. Nach Tullas Plänen sollte der Rhein weiter nach Osten verlegt werden. Damit hätte die Stadt ihre Anbindung an den Rhein verloren. Welche Gründe Speyer anführte, um diese Abänderung des Flussverlaufes zu verhindern, werden in dieser Hausarbeit nur kurz angerissen. Es wird stattdessen die Frage gestellt, inwieweit die politische Situation dieser Zeit das Handeln der beiden zuständigen Staaten Bayern und Baden beeinflusst haben könnte, damit die Stadt ihre Lage am Rhein bewahren konnte.In der von mir ausgewerteten Literatur erkennt man dazu keine stichhaltigen Argumente. Honsell verwies auf fehlende finanzielle Mittel, Fenske vermerkte nur kurz, dass Bayern und Baden ¿bald¿ bereit waren den Wunsch der Stadt zu bewilligen und Bernhardt vermutete, dass den Unteranliegerstaaten jeder nicht ausgeführte Durchstich entgegen kam, denn dann würde die Überschwemmungsgefahr bei den Befürworterstaaten verbleiben. Diese Hausarbeit soll den politischen Aspekt herausarbeiten. Nach einer kurzen Beschreibung des Oberrheines skizziere ich in Kapitel 2 den Werdegang Johann Gottfried Tullas und in den folgenden Abschnitten die Situation der Stadt Speyer und des Rheinkreises im ersten Drittel des 19.Jahrhunderts. Der Speyerer Presse ist ein kurzer Artikel gewidmet, da das junge Informationsmedium die politische Stimmung im Lande stark beeinflusste. In Kapitel 6 ¿ Zeitgenössische Konflikte ¿ werden nur die Widerstände und Proteste der Jahre 1817 bis 1832 beschrieben. Es gab jedoch auch große Zustimmung zu dem Rektifikationsvorhaben, da es die Gemeinden nachweislich vor Überflutungen schützten und Landgewinn einbrachte. In der Schlussbetrachtung wird ein Resümee gezogen, das sich auf die explosive Stimmung dieser Zeit bezieht.

The very human story behind the post-war growth of St. John's and the creation of Churchill Park

"Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her--paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land--lie largely eroded and lost. In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country's still unfolding history, and ideas of 'race, ' have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from 'Indian Territory' and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons"

This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, treated not as mere barriers but also as places of exchange in the early Middle Ages.Focusing on borderlands, Continuation or Change uncovers the changing political and military organisations at the time and the significance of the functioning of former borderland areas. The chapters answer how the fiscal and military apparatus were organised, identify the turning points in the division of dynastic power, and assign meaning to the assimilation of certain symbolic and ideological elements of the imperial tradition. Finally, the authors offer answers to what exactly a "statehood without a state" was in regard to semi-peripheral and peripheral areas that were also perceived through the prism of the idea of a world system, network theory, or the concept of so-called negotiating borderlands.Continuation or Change is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in medieval warfare, Eastern European history, medieval border regions, and cross-cultural interaction.

If we look into our past we notice that about 4.400 million of years ago the planet ¿mars¿ crashed against our ¿earth¿, causing an enormous explosion which formed our ¿moon¿, creating an atmosphere full of elements such as carbon dioxide¿ ¿hydrogen¿, ¿oxygen¿, nitrogen¿, ¿calcium¿ and ¿sulfur¿. Everything necessary for our life. The Universe ¿was very small, and you needed a microscope to observe it, but suddenly double ditz size, every 10 to 30 seconds, becoming 10.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 time bigger, making our existence possible, and also includes whirl winds and many gases to fill the Universe, because without them we could not have stars, but only gases and eternal darkness. And so ¿gravity¿was created galaxy, liberating enormous heat, creating ¿heavy metals, forming a ¿Supernovä, with a new nuclear synthesis, In the Cosmos clouds of gases are necessary to form a new ¿solar system¿.. The Cosmic radiation in the background is the light left by the "Big Bang", more than 13.750 millions of years ago. We do not know how everything started, and the words ]IHC" means the great collision of "Hadrons", also known as the ]Machine of God", and when two particles crash together with great energy after the "Big Bang", and it is possible to accelerate the particles millions of times with more energy than the "IHC".TheUniverse is expanding more and more, and could be that we belong to another Universe?But should there be only one Universe, the cloud of dust, compressed by electrostatic forces, formed ourplanets, 200 million years ago. Our physical world is composed of: electricity, magnetism, gases, optic, acoustic, mechanic, ex-rays, cathode rays, electrons, radioactivity, and others.The diameter of an ]Atom] equals about 0,00000008 cm. According to ¿Albert Einstein¿ the contents of a stone can be transformed in ¿energy¿. The radioactivity of an element can disintegrate other elements. Then there are ¿the principles of Thermodynamic of J.W.Gibbs. and ¿Max Plank. - ¿The Quantic Theory¿, The velocity of ¿light¿never changes.Then there are ¿the principles of relativity¿ of Albert Einstein¿.Relativity means that ]Space-Time¿ are not absolute, and Relativity can never reach the speed of light.According to ¿Einstein¿, time always changes, and according to ¿Hawkins¿ it is also interconnected with 3periods of space, called- ¿Space-Time¿.

The natural history of Lake Nipigon, the primary watershed feeding the Great Lakes, is explored, as well as the evolving human history of the area , from its aboriginal prehistory, through first European contact, the fur-trade era, resource development, and ultimately to the communities that exist there today.

This book offers the first full length biography of legendary explorer Mungo Park for over forty years. Tracing the expeditions who followed him it documents how and why he was commemorated long after his death. This is not simply one of the great stories of world exploration but a rich and varied account of Africa and its cultures at the time.