Geographers
Geographers

Author: Patrick H. Armstrong

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1474226914

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An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.

The Industrial Geography of Italy
The Industrial Geography of Italy

Author: Russell King

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317521102

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At the time this book was originally published in 1985 Italy was one of Europe’s leading industrial nations. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Italian industry during the 1980s. It introduces Italy’s physical and human resources and outlines the historical development of the industry. It then examines the major sectors of Italian industry and then describes the different regions of the country and the striking differences between them are explored and discussed.

Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)

Author: Chet Van Duzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-03

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 3319768409

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This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemüller’s famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea
Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea

Author: Sean Anderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1317094778

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Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea during the Italian colonial period spanning from 1890-1941. Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, the book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. As Italy’s colonia primogenità or 'first born colony', Eritrea and its capital, Asmara, not only bore witness to the emergence of politicized interiors and international expositions, the colony became a vehicle that polarized issues of race and gender. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, this book moves between histories of architecture, urbanism, literature and media to describe how Eritrea and Asmara became a crucial fulcrum for Italy's ill-fated pursuits in Ethiopia and other neighboring countries. Consequently, modern architecture inscribed Eritrean subjectivities while redefining technologies that affected constructions of the colonial interior. Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea demonstrates how architecture in Asmara reshaped the creation and reception of Italian East Africa.

Spanish Morocco
Spanish Morocco

Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13:

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Contains extracts from treaties dealing with Morocco.

Handbooks
Handbooks

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Published to provide British delegates with information for the Peace Conference.