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Qureshi, Yasmeen. "Environmental issues in British Columbia : an historical-geographical perspective." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31325.
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Concern for the state of the natural environment has been growing throughout the world in recent years as it becomes clear that the world is in the midst of an environmental crisis. In B.C., this has led to widespread public controversy over issues such as pollution, logging, and the preservation of wilderness areas. This thesis seeks to bring present conflicts into perspective by examining the historical roots of the various discourses on the environment in B.C.
Present environmental controversies take place within a legislative framework, therefore some understanding of the historical development of that legislation and the predominant attitudes that helped shape it is necessary. The first two chapters of this thesis provide this background, focusing on forest policy and parks and wilderness policy.
The third chapter addresses the outdoor recreationists, the sport hunters and anglers of B.C., who, although often contributing to the depletion of wildlife populations, also helped shape wildlife policy and worked for the preservation of wildlife habitats.
With the foundations for the environmental movement set, the fourth chapter deals with the rise of the environmental movement and environmental interest groups during the 1960's and 70's. This includes a discussion of the counter culture, general social changes of the period, the rise of ecology, and protests in Strathcona Park during the late 1980's.
The final chapter considers the reactions of the forest industry to the environmental movement. The forest industry has never had to be so aware of public opinion and so cautious about the image it projects as it is now. The focus is on one major company, MacMillan Bloedel, and the evolution of its public relations policies during the 1960's and 70's.Arts, Faculty of
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Becker, Joachim, and Andreas Novy. ""Territorial Regulation and the Vienna Region: a historical-geographical overview"." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1996. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6238/1/IIR_Disc_54.pdf.
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Ärfström, Sanna. "Brick Lane Street Market : A study in urban historical-geographical change." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-193602.
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Hayes, Emily Jane Eleanor Rhydderch. "Geographical projections : lantern-slides and the making of geographical knowledge at the Royal Geographical Society c.1885-1924." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23096.
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This thesis is about the mobilities of geographical knowledge in the material form of lantern-slides and the forces exerted on these by technological and human factors. Owing to its concern with matter, human- and non-human, and its circulation, the thesis addresses the physics of geographical knowledge. The chapters below investigate the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) ongoing tradition of telling stories of science and exploration through words, objects and pictures in the final quarter of the nineteenth century and as geography professionalized and geographical science developed. These processes occurred within the context of a plethora of technological innovations, including the combination of the older medium of the magic lantern and photographic lantern-slides, integral to a wide range of entertainment, scientific and educational performances across Britain. In 1886 the RGS began to engage with the magic lantern. Via this technology and the interactive lecture performances in which it featured, I argue that the Society embraced the medium of photography, thereby engendering transformations in methods of knowledge making and to the RGS collections. I study how these transformations influenced the discipline of Geography as it was re-established at the University of Oxford in 1887. I demonstrate the evolution of the RGS’s Evening, Technical and Young Persons’ lectures, their contingent lantern-slide practices and, consequently, how these moulded, and were moulded by, the RGS Fellowship between c. 1885 and 1924. The chapters below explore how these innovations in visual technologies and practices arose, how they circulated knowledge and their effect on geographies of geographical knowledge making. By harnessing the lantern the RGS attracted an expanding and diversifying audience demographic. The thesis demonstrates the interactive nature of RGS lantern-slide lectures and audiences' important role in shaping the Society’s practices and geographical knowledge. The chapters below argue that it was via the use of the lantern that geography was disseminated to new places. The thesis therefore brings additional perspectives and dimensions to understandings of the circulation of geographical knowledge.
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Lewis, Sarah Anne. "An historical and geographical study of the small towns of Shropshire, 1600-1830." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35567.
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The thesis begins with a brief historiographical survey establishing the rationale for research into the role of small towns in the early modem English economy. The spatial dimension of the Shropshire urban system is then analysed employing Christaller central place methodology. Databases for 1797 and 1828 are derived from directory sources and supplemented by information on the transport and market infrastructures and their services to examine centrality, function, connectivity and nodality by hierarchical ranking. The second part of the thesis develops occupational and sectoral classification systems to delineate the economic parameters of the urban system. The sectoral structure of the small towns at the benchmark dates of 1797 and 1828 is analysed and a typology of the urban system is developed from the demographic and economic data. The final part provides case studies of six small towns: Bishops Castle, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Ludlow, Much Wenlock and Oswestry. Benchmark estimates derived from probate inventories, occupational and fiscal data are used to analyse the composition and rate of growth of output by sector, and to create time series from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The extent to which the evidence of the case studies is representative of the urban system as a whole, typologically differentiated, is considered in the conclusion.
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Boyle, Steven J. "The use of the historical, geographical and cultural hermeneutic in the interpretation of Scripture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Ziese, Mark Sloan. "Incense in the period of the Hebrew monarchy a geographical, historical, and archaeological investigation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Coles, Timothy Edward. "The evolution of urban retail systems in Germany, 1848 to 1914 : an historical-geographical perspective." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307313.
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Loder, J. F. "The contemporary and historical colonization of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in its geographical context." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1990. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU023742.
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This thesis considers a conflict between 'colonos' and conservation in mid-twentieth Colombia. A model of frontier processes is used in an historical perspective to illuminate the geography of a socio-ecological invasion process. The documentary evidence is combined with evidence from personal fieldwork, catastral survey, census material and unpublished data from quasi-governmental organizations, to produce an interpretation of the current situation that differs greatly from that held by the bodies directly involved at the time.
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MacNiven, Alan. "Norse in Islay : a settlement historical case-study for medieval Scandinavian activity in Western Maritime Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8973.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the assumption that Norse settlement in western maritime Scotland was substantially less extensive and influential than in more northerly parts of the maritime zone. This assumption is based on comparison of the apparent ratios of Norse to Gaelic farm-names in these areas; and the observation that the inhabitants of the former were Gaelic-speaking in both the Early Historic and Later Medieval periods. In view of the virtual hiatus in the documentary record between c.AD 750 and c.AD 1150 and the unqualified nature of the place-name ratios, it is suggested that such evidence is misleading. The investigation which follows comprises a detailed case-study of the island of Islay. Although use is made of environmental, archaeological, historical and fiscal data, the main focus is on place-names. Emphasis is placed throughout on the processes by which names become implanted in the landscape and the factors which affect their survival afterwards. There are three sections. Background material for the study of Norse settlement is presented in the first. This includes: a detailed examination of the physical environment, an ethno-linguistic profile for the preNorse community and a review of the evidence for Norse activity in Islay specifically within the context of western maritime Scotland generally. Aspects of Dalriadan and Norse society are highlighted which prompt critical re-appraisal of theories on Norse settlement. It is suggested that this process was not without friction. It may have involved a certain amount of violent depopulation and almost certainly led to social dichotomisation between the Norse incomers and remaining natives. Section two comprises a theoretical and methodological introduction to place-name studies. Following an overview of basic theory, Islay sources and previous approaches to Norse settlement, a model is presented for the study of Islay's Norse place-names. While use is made of both habitative and nature names, the framework selected as most appropriate is Stephen MacDougall's map of 1749-51. As this provides typologically uniform coverage of all of the island's farm-districts from a period preceding the agrarian reforms and settlement re-organisation of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it is more likely to reflect the settlement patterns and nomenclature of the Middle Ages than later yet more detailed sources. The third section, which constitutes the bulk of the thesis, concentrates on analysis of the place-name data presented in Appendices I and II. There are two main parts to this section. The linguistic back-ground, economic potential and spatial characteristics of individual farm-districts are examined in the first. Contrary to previous assumptions, it is noted that farm-districts with Norse names are spread fairly evenly across all land-types on the island. They are not primarily coastal, restricted to enclaves or less likely to include Iron Age fortifications than those with Gaelic names. Analysis of the distribution and linguistic categorisation of the nomenclature in view of post-Norse historical developments suggests that many of the island's Gaelic settlement names are the result of prestige immigration in the It century or later. This hypothesis is supported by linguistic investigation of the more common habitative generics shown on MacDougall's map. Magnus Olsen's User-group theory is then applied to the typology and distribution of ON nature-name material. It is argued that this too supports the idea of widespread Norse language use being replaced by a reintroduction of Gaelic and Gaelic naming practices. The second part of this section comprises an examination of land and territorial divisions. The fiscal 'extents' of later medieval and early modem Islay have long been considered anomalous in a Hebridean context. Examination of the historical and fiscal sources in conjunction with a geometric analysis of the farm-districts on MacDougall's map, suggests that Islay may once have been divided into the 'ounceland' units more familiar from surrounding areas. These findings are then developed in the context of ecclesiastic organisation. While certain aspects of Islay's later medieval parish system appear to reflect the military districts of the Senchus fer nAlban, it is argued that these survived through the intermediary of an Orcadian style leiðangr system of naval defence. It is concluded that while the Norse impact on Islay was less long-lived than in more northerly parts of maritime Scotland, it was not necessarily any less intense or destructive with regards to the pre-existing ethno-linguistic identity.
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Si, Yuefang [Verfasser]. "Outward FDI from China : Historical development, geographical distribution and the obstacles to subsidiary business success / Yuefang Si." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1065394772/34.
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Gerrard, Christopher M. "Trade and settlement in medieval Somerset : An application of some geographical and economic models to historical data." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376609.
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Khan, Farieda. "Contemporary South African environmental response : an historical and socio-political evaluation, with particular reference to Blacks." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14294.
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Bibliography: leaves 128-148.The impress of history has been particularly profound in the sphere of environmental perception, in that South Africans, both black and white, have had their notions of the environment shaped by the political forces of the past. Accordingly, this study is placed within the context of historical geography, as its open-ended techniques and multi-disciplinary approach is regarded as the most appropriate way of undertaking a study which crosses both historical and environmental boundaries. A contention fundamental to this study, is that South African environmental awareness and knowledge is at a fairly low level and that black environmental interest and concern in particular, ranges from apathy to outright hostility. It is further contended that the attainment of mass environmental literacy is essential for the success of the environmental movement in this country and that this in turn, is dependent on the adoption of a strategy incorporating an integrated historical, social and political perspective. Historico-political factors such as: the impact of the colonizing process; the dispossession of the indigenous peoples; the effect of racial attitudes; discriminatory land legislation and, in particular, the imposition of the apartheid system in 1948, are evaluated in terms of their effect on the development of black environmental attitudes. The culmination of these factors has led to a distortion of environmental perceptions and attitudes, as well as to the alienation of blacks from the environment. Conversely, the initially exploitative white response to the environment gradually incorporated a preservationist element, subsequently evolving into a conservation ideology which generally ignored black interests and perspectives. The policies and activities of the first black environmental organizations are detailed, in an attempt to place their achievements in historical perspective. Research in this area was conducted using primary sources. Interviews with selected environmental and mass democratic organizations in the Greater Cape Town Region were conducted. Using the techniques of the focused interview, their stance on environmental issues was established and their proposals for a future environmental strategy elicited. It was found that, while only one of the nine mass democratic organizations evaluated had an environmental policy, they were all committed to the establishment of a democratic society as well as to the concept of mass participation in environmental politics. Based on the insights gained from the historical aspects of the study, as well as an assessment of the proposals put forward during interviews, it is concluded that certain preconditions .are necessary for the successful implementation of future environmental strategies, if blacks are to become involved in environmental issues. These are: the destruction of apartheid; the establishment of a democratic state and the enhancement of individual quality of life.
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Domaas, Stein Tage. "Structural analyses of features in cultural landscapes based on historical cadastral maps and GIS /." Alnarp : Department of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. http://epsilon.slu.se/2005100.pdf.
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Wagner, John Richards Nathan. "WAVES OF CARNAGE: A HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC IN NORTH CAROLINA WATERS." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2740.
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Scarth, David Todd. "Sovereignty, property, and indigeneity : the relationship between Aboriginal North America and the modern state in historical and geographical context." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45251/.
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Accounting for indigenous forms of sovereignty poses difficult problems for the discipline of International Relations, which is framed by the story of the modern, territorial European state. Most attempts to conceptualize Aboriginal nations in the international system confirm the modern state as the benchmark for sovereignty. In this dissertation I address the problem of how to incorporate Aboriginal peoples into IR without granting the modern European state as the only legitimate form of sovereignty. I proceed through an examination of key moments in the European colonization of the Americas, from first contact through the geographic isolation of indigenous peoples onto reservations. In each case it is demonstrated that the assumption of “formal” sovereignty – based on recognition, and with insufficient regard for historical context – underpinning conventional IR accounts of colonialism is inadequate to theorize colonialism. I argue that colonialism is not a story of political-legal recognition (sovereignty), but of politicaleconomic social relations – specifically the appropriation of land (property). My contribution to the discipline is two-fold. First, I contribute to a richer understanding of sovereignty. Establishing sovereignty over territory in the New World allowed the English (and then American) state to set the legal, political and cultural framework for the private acquisition of land. Second, rather than using indigenous nations only as a foil for modern sovereignty, or as victims in a narrative of colonial domination, I make the case for incorporating the political agency of Indigenous communities into IR's account of colonialism. Far from the passive victims implied by conventional IR, they were central to a dynamic history of resistance and compromise, and their interactions with Europeans shaped modern sovereignty in lasting ways.
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Barber-James, Helen Margaret. "Systematics, morphology, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Mayfly family Prosopistomatidae (Ephemeroptera: Insecta) of the world." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005473.
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The diversity, classification and historical biogeography of the mayfly family Prosopistomatidae are explored. First, the higher classification of the Ephemeroptera is reviewed, focussing on the phylogenetic placement of the Prosopistomatidae relative to other mayfly families. All relevant literature from 1762 to 2010 is synthesized. Baetiscidae are established as the probable sister lineage of Prosopistomatidae, the two constituting the superfamily Baetiscoidea. Next, qualitative morphological variation within the Prosopistomatidae is reviewed and revised, emphasizing nymphs because imaginal specimens are few. The labium and associated structures and the hypopharynx of nymphs, and the highly-derived wing venation of the imaginal stages, are re-interpreted. The structure of the male tarsal claws changes considerably between subimago and imago, which, together with deeply scalloped ridges on male imaginal forelegs and unusual pits on the female thorax, are interpreted as providing an unusual mating mechanism. These structures provide morphological characters for species definition and phylogenetic analyses. Two approaches to species delimitation are explored. First, morphometric variation is analysed using Principal Component Analysis, revealing groupings that can be interpreted as species, although there is some overlap between them. Discriminant Function Analysis shows that head width and carapace shape have the most value in identifying nymphs of different species. The carapace of Prosopistoma nymphs is shown to grow allometrically and gradually, in contrast with that of Baetisca, indicating a difference in early ontogeny. Second, an Artificial Neural Network algorithm applied to nymphal morphological characters accurately identified species. This computer-driven artificial intelligence method has power to provide future easy-to-use electronic identification aids. Phylogenetic analysis of nymphal morphology using the parsimony method shows two clades of Prosopistomatidae, one sharing characters with the type species, Prosopistoma variegatum and the other predominating in Africa, although also occurring in Asia; these clades are named the “P. variegatum” and “African” clades, respectively. Parsimony analysis of adult morphology supports these two clades, but supertree analysis obscures the relationships, nesting the “P. variegatum” lineage within the other clade. Preliminary molecular phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA, (mitochondrial) 18S rRNA and Histone-3 genes using Bayesian Inference methods does not support the two clades shown by morphology. Instead, there is a strong relationship between the European species and one African species, with the single Asian representative being most distantly related. These results are limited by lack of fresh material, patchy taxon sampling, and problems with finding suitable primers. A molecular clock program, BEAST, calibrated using fossils, suggests divergence times for the oldest crown-group Prosopistoma clade, represented by the Asian P. wouterae, of about 131 Ma, with the youngest species, the African P. crassi, of 1.21 Ma. Stem-group relationships are analysed using parsimony analysis, focussing on wing characters of the Baetiscoidea, other extant mayfly lineages, and extinct stem-group lineages. This suggests that the Baetiscoidea diverged from main-line Ephemeroptera earlier than any other extant mayfly lineage. This approach expands upon ideas hinted at by earlier scientists. Finally, historical biogeographical analysis of the distribution of known Baetiscoidea s.s. stem-group fossils implies a once Pangean distribution of the lineage. Changing palaeo-climate, catastrophic extinction events and plate tectonic movements in relation to the distribution of crown-group species are reviewed. Other approaches to historical biogeography that build on both morphological and molecular phylogenies are used to interpret disperalist and vacarianist arguments. Distribution patterns of eight unrelated freshwater organisms which share a similar distribution pattern are compared, assuming that shared patterns indicate similar historic biogeographic processes. The distribution of recent Prosopistoma species is seen to be the product of evolution resulting from both vicariance and dispersal. In conclusion, this thesis encompasses a variety of disciplines. It successfully recognises new characters and distinguishes previously unknown species. It uses new approaches to delimiting species and known methods to determine phylogeny from several angles. The analysis of stem-group relationships offers an insight into possible early lineage splitting within Ephemeroptera. Interpretation of historical biogeography allows for both a Gondwanan origin of Prosopistomatidae, with rafting of species on the Deccan plate to Asia, and for subsequent dispersal from Asia down to Australia and across to Europe, and possibly back to Africa.
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Karstkarel, Nanka. "Changes in shelf ice extent in West Antarctica between 1840 and 1960 : analysing historical maps in a geographical information system... /." Groningen : Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40220277c.
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Svedjemo, Gustaf. "Ontology as Conceptual Schema when Modelling Historical Maps for Database Storage." Licentiate thesis, Gotland University, Gotland University, Gotland University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-35.
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Sweden has an enormous treasure in its vast number of large-scale historical maps from a period of 400 years made for different purposes, that we call map series. The maps are also very time and regional dependent with respect to their concepts. A large scanning project by Lantmäteriverket will make most of these maps available as raster images. In many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, like history, human geography and archaeology, historical maps are of great importance as a source of information. They are used frequently in different studies for a variety of problems. A full and systematic analyse of this material from a database perspective has so far not been conducted. During the last decade or two, it has been more and more common to use data from historical maps in GIS-analysis. In this thesis a novel approach to model these maps is tested. The method is based on the modelling of each map series as its own ontology, thus focusing on the unique concepts of each map series. The scope of this work is a map series covering the province of Gotland produced during the period 1693-1705. These maps have extensive text descriptions concerned with different aspects of the mapped features. Via a code marking system they are attached to the maps. In this thesis a semantic analysis and an ontology over all the concepts found in the maps and text descriptions are presented. In our project we model the maps as close to the original structure as possible with a very data oriented view. Furthermore; we demonstrate how this ontology can be used as a conceptual schema for a logical E/R database schema. The Ontology is described in terms of the Protégé meta-model and the E/R schema in UML. The mapping between the two is a set of elementary rules, which are easy for a human to comprehend, but hard to automate. The E/R schema is implemented in a demonstration system. Examples of some different applications which are feasibly to perform by the system are presented. These examples go beyond the traditional use of historical maps in GIS today
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Mullen, Wayne Thomas. "Deccan Queen: A Spatial Analysis of Poona in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." University of Sydney. School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/495.
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This thesis is structured around the analysis of a model that describes the Cantonment, the Civil Lines, the Sadr Bazar and part of the Native City of the Western Indian settlement of Poona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Sivertun, Åke. "Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a tool for analysis and communications of multidimensional data." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi och ekonomisk historia, 1993. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100703.
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An integrating approach, including knowledge about whole systems of processes, is essential in order to reach both development and environmental protection goals. In this thesis Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are suggested as a tool to realise such integrated models. The main hypothesis in this work is that several natural technical and social systems that share a time-space can be compared and analysed in a GIS. My first objective was to analyze how GIS can support research, planning, and, more specifically, bring a broad scattering of competence together in an interdisciplinary process. In this process GIS was ivestigated as a tool to achieve models that give us a better overview of a problem, a better understanding for the processes involved, aid in foreseeing conflicts between interests, find ecological limits and assist in choosing countermeasures and monitor the result of different programs. The second objective concerns the requirement that models should be comparable and possible to include in other models and that they can be communicated to planners, politicians and the public. For this reason the possibilities to communicate the result and model components of multidimensional and multi-temporal data are investigated. Four examples on the possibilities and problems when using GIS in interdisciplinary studies are presented. In the examples, water plays a central role as a component in questions about development, management and environmental impact. The first articles focus on non-point source pollutants as a problem under growing attention when the big industrial and municipal point sources are brought under control. To manage non-point source pollutants, detailed knowledge about local conditions is required to facilitate precise advices on land use. To estimate the flow of metals and N(itrogen) in an area it is important to identify the soil moisture. Soil moisture changes over time but also significantly in the landscape according to several factors. Here a method is presented that calculate soil moisture over large areas. Man as a hydrologie factor has to be assessed to also understand the relative importance of anthropogen processes. To offer a supplement to direct measurements and add anthropogen factors, a GIS model is presented that takes soil-type, topography, vegetation, land-use, agricultural drainage and relative position in the watershed into account. A method to analyse and visualise development over time and space in the same model is presented in the last empirical study. The development of agricultural drainage can be discussed as a product of several forces here analyzed together and visualized with help of colour coded "Hyper pixels" and maps. Finally a discussion concerning the physiological and psychological possibilities to communicate multidimensional phenomena with the help of pictures and maps is held. The main conclusions in this theses are that GIS offer the possibilities to develop distributed models, e.g., models that calculate effects from a vide range of factors in larger areas and with a much higher spatial resolution than has been possible earlier. GIS also offer a possibility to integrate and communicate information from different disciplines to scientists, decision makers and the public.Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 1993, härtill 6 uppsatser.
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Silveira, Daniela Oliveira. ""O passado está prenhe do futuro" : a escrita da história no Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul (1920-30)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17526.
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Esta dissertação trata da construção do conceito de história do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul (IHGRGS). Para isto, desenvolveu-se uma análise do perfil dos homens que fundaram esta Instituição em 1920, em Porto Alegre/RS, inspirada em sua congênere nacional, o Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro. Inicialmente, apresenta-se uma breve análise acerca das trajetórias profissionais e das experiências ligadas às letras vividas pelos fundadores da entidade. A segunda parte do texto ocupa-se da constituição do conceito de história apropriado pelo Instituto; para isso, fez-se uma análise dos textos publicados na Revista do IHGRGS. Sabe-se então que o discurso historiográfico estruturado é o resultado da simbiose entre o conceito de história antigo, marcado principalmente pelo princípio da Historia magistra vitae, e o conceito moderno de história que se preocupa em garantir a produção de um saber científico e positivo, objetivo último do Instituto.This dissertation aims to discuss the construction of the concept of history of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul Historical and Geographical Institute). It develops an analysis of the profile of the man who founded this institution in 1920, in Porto Alegre/RS, inspired by its national congeners, the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute). Initially, it presents a brief analysis about the founders' professional trajectories and their experiences concerning the letters. The second part broaches the constitution of the concept of history appropriated by the Institute, through the analysis of the texts published in its journal. It's known that the historiography's discourse structured is the result of a symbiosis between the ancient concept of History, marked by the principles of the Historia magistra vitae, and the modern concept of History, which intended to guarantee the production of a scientific and positive knowledge, the main goal of the Institute.
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Jílková, Jana. "Vývoj mikroregionu na topografických a tematických mapách." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226362.
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This master thesis deals development of geographical names, cartographic symbols and on thematically maps documents changes of land use in microregion Lomnicko. Basis for its elaboration were analog and digital topographical and thematically maps from various sources and different time of periods. A part of the thesis are characteristics of used maps documents and conditions of their obtaining. Development of names and cartographic symbols is documented by tables and charts.
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Centelhas, João Paulo Rabello de Castro. "O zapatismo e a geografia histórica das comunidades indígenas mesoamericanas: um estudo a partir do conceito de metabolismo geográfico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-09062017-122450/.
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O objeto geral desta pesquisa é o devir histórico-geográfico de largo espectro das sociedades mesoamericanas. Através dele se problematiza os fundamentos que animaram seu movimento de reprodução e formaram as condições objetivas de existência dos indígenas de Chiapas (México), onde o EZLN (Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional) tem por excelência seu campo de atuação. A investigação se concentra sobre a tendência integrativa do trabalho social em escalas progressivamente mais amplas, correpondendo a diferentes metabolismos geográficos em que as comunidades ameríndias eram configuradas ou mesmo descaracterizadas enquanto tais sob o imperativo de relações societárias supra-comunitárias, hierarquizadas e regionais. Este processo, em sua face colonial, desmontou e reestruturou radicalmente as territorialidades das sociedades ameríndias, atomizando e reduzindo sua organização territorial em comunidades locais de pequeno porte, ao passo que as articulava sob a ordem colonial da superexploração do trabalho a nível intercontinental. Esta integração-fragmentadora da formação territorial do México colonial engendrou elaborações étnico-identitárias, tanto singulares (grupos étnicos), quanto gerais (indígena), que se constituíram mediante tal geografia política colonial, muitas vezes radicando sua condição campesina, comunitária e autóctone como fundamento de sua própria etnicidade. A questão que se apresenta é a interrogação sobre o desenvolvimento histórico-geográfico das sociedades ameríndias na sua importância quanto ao entendimento do atual embate político em que os grupos e as comunidades estão inseridos em toda América Latina. A emergência e a atuação do movimento zapatista aparece como um ator insurgente, que permitiu um amplo processo de recuperação de terras indígenas mediante o levante armado de 1994, mas desde então tem sofrido uma feroz e sofisticada campanha de contra-insurgência protagonizada pelo Estado mexicano e seus apoiadores privados (nacionais e internacionais). O modo de vida indígena-comunitário passa a ser resignificado no âmbito de uma valorização étnico-cultural de sua ancestralidade, mas ao mesmo tempo é atravessado por processos fragmentadores que tensionam as bases e os laços da vida social comunitária. O metabolismo geográfico do capital monopolista transnacional reinsere os territórios indígenas sob uma geografia política altamente complexa, em que as configurações territoriais assumem um papel imperativo na normatização e no controle das práticas sociais e políticas. Por consequência da estrutura do metabolismo contemporâneo, a racionalização global-regional das geografias locais resulta em um grave problema cognitivo à elaboração da luta pelos atores locais, seja no campo ou na cidade, implicando dramaticamente sobre as possibilidades estratégicas do agir político. Este objeto específico é investigado em função do desenvolvimento das práticas políticas do EZLN, sobretudo, nos termos possíveis da ação regional e supra-comunitária.The general object of this research is the broad historical and geographical becoming of Mesoamerican indigenous communities. Through it we discuss the fundamentals that inspired its playback movement and the formation of the objective conditions of existence of Chiapas\'s indigenous people (Mexico), where the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) has quintessential their actuation\'s field. The investigation focuses on the integrative tendency of social work progressively in larger scales, the different geographical metabolisms in the Native American communities, largely were necessarily integrated. This process, in its colonial face, dismounted and seriously restructured the territoriality of Mesoamerican societies, atomizing and reducing its territorial organization in small local communities, while they were articulated under the colonial order of the overexploitation of labor in a inter-continental level. This fragmentary integration of the territorial formation of colonial Mexico engendered ethnic-identitarian elaborations, both singular (ethnic groups) and general (indigenous), which were constituted by such colonial political geography, often rooted in its peasant, communitarian and autochthonous condition as a foundation of their own ethnicity. The question that arises is the inquiry about the historical-geographic development of Amerindian societies in their importance in understanding the current political clash in which groups and communities are inserted throughout Latin America. The emergence and performance of the Zapatista movement appears later in this scenario as an insurgent actor, who allowed a broad process of recovery of indigenous lands by the armed uprising of 1994, but since has undergone a fierce and sophisticated campaign of counterinsurgency led by the Mexican State and its private backers (national and international). The Indian-communal way of life becomes reframed within an ethno-cultural appreciation of their ancestry, but at the same time is crossed by fragmenting processes tensioning the foundations and ties of community social life. The geographical metabolism of transnational monopolist capital reinserts indigenous territories in a highly complex political geography, where territorial settings play an imperative role in the regulation and control of social and political practices. As a result of the structure of contemporary metabolism, global-regional rationalization of local geographies results in a serious \"cognitive problem\" to the subjects in general, generating dramatic implications for strategic possibilities of political action. This particular object is investigated with the development of the EZLN\'s political practices, particularly on the possible terms of regional and supra-community action.
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Lima, Maria Goretti Leite de. "As transformações da paisagem do sítio histórico urbano de Boa Vista: Um olhar a partir da fotografia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-29032012-140145/.
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Este trabalho é um estudo de caso, inserido na problemática do planejamento urbano, quando se pretende pontuar circunstâncias e conseqüências das ações de intervenção do poder público municipal sobre a área desse sítio histórico urbano. Destacamos que, na última década, especialmente entre os anos de 2000 e 2010, esse sítio histórico urbano, passou por transformações devido a intervenções realizadas pelo poder público municipal. Nesse recorte buscamos perceber as formas; a aparência original dos prédios; a descaracterização das edificações e a substituição dos mesmos; o traçado das ruas; a conservação da área verde e do patrimônio ambiental, como também, a ocupação e o uso do solo com as novas atividades comerciais e de lazer, tendo como exemplo, o complexo Orla Taumanan. Nessas contradições entre as políticas de reurbanização e as propostas de revitalização, questionamos de que forma o poder público e a sociedade civil estão reagindo? Partimos do entendimento de que tanto a sociedade quanto o poder público, não perceberam a importância do patrimônio cultural e natural do lugar. Acreditamos que o processo de revitalização pode incorporar e valora o espaço urbano e o patrimônio arquitetônico com todo o valor simbólico herdado da formação inicial do núcleo embrionário existente. Sendo assim, a carência de investigação e a urgência de um entendimento acerca desse assunto, que trata da proteção do sítio urbano histórico de Boa Vista, fornecerá subsídios para futuras políticas públicas, que são essenciais para proteger a área enfocada, trazendo benefícios para a sociedade.This thesis proposes theme is a case study, which concerns to urban planning, relating to circumstance and consequence actions for intervention in the municipality on the grounds of urban historical place. We highlight that, in the last decade, particularly from 2000 to 2010, this urban historical place, changed dramatically because of interventions carried through the municipality. As for this, we search for shapes; the original look of the buildings and their deconstruction and replacement; the routes of the streets; the conservation of the green area and the environmental patrimony, as well as, the occupation and the use of the ground as new commercial and leisure activities, for instance, the Orla Taumanan. In these contradictions between reurbanization politics and the revitalization proposals, we ask: how the public power and the civil society are reacting? We agree that not only the society but also the public power do not realize the importance of cultural and natural patrimony of the place. We believe that the revitalization process may unite and value all urban area and the architectural patrimony with their symbolic value inherited from the initial formation of an existing embryonic nucleus. As for this, the lack of researches and an urgent agreement relating to this field, that deals with the protection of the historical urban place in Boa Vista, will supply subsidies future public politics, which are essential for protection of the focused area, bringing benefits for the whole society.
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Garcia, Lúcia Maria Cruz. "Emílio Joaquim da Silva Maia: um intelectual no Império do Brasil." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2004. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1274.
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Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de JaneiroEste trabalho recupera a trajetória intelectual de Emílio Joaquim da Silva Maia, no Império Brasileiro, ao analisar sua produção científica no interior de importantes instituições do Brasil Oitocentista e, ao trazer à luz os inéditos Estudos Históricos sobre Portugal e Brasil , que permitem compreender sua produção historiográfica, como parte integrante do projeto de fundação da História Nacional. Para a reconstituição da trajetória intelectual de Silva Maia, foram investigados diversos aspectos de sua vida pessoal, bem como inúmeros estudos de natureza científica e histórica de sua autoria. O esforço de investigação sobre esse objeto justifica-se pelo fato de que a personagem havia sido abordada pela historiografia somente por sua atuação junto às Ciências Naturais, o que só contribuiu para que permanecesse inédita sua contribuição à escrita da História do Brasil.
This work recovers Emílio Joaquim da Silva Maias intelectual life during the Brazilian Empire, analysing his scientific production at many important institutions in 18th century Brazil, unveling the never published Estudos Históricos sobre Portugal e Brasil [Historical Studies regarding Portugal and Brazil], and thus allowng us to understand this production as part os establishing National History. For Silva Maias intellectual trajetory reconstitution, several aspects of his life were investigated, as well as some of his numerous scientific historical studies. All study is justified by the fact that, until now, Silva Maias has been known by History just for his atuation on Natural Science while his contribution to brazilian historical writings remained intact.
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Mercier, Michael E. "Infant mortality in Ottawa, 1901, an historical-geographic perspective." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ26933.pdf.
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Mercier, Michael E. (Michael Ernest) 1970 Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Infant mortality in Ottawa, 1901; an historical-geographic perspective." Ottawa.:, 1997.
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Tesar, Jennifer E. "The Impact of a Geographic Information System on Middle School Students' Geographic Literacy and Historical Empathy." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1282139171.
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McCollister, Christopher Michael. "Geographic knowledge discovery techniques for exploring historical weather and avalanche data." Thesis, Montana State University, 2004. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2004/mccollister/McCollisterC0805.pdf.
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Bartlett, David A. "Exploring South Park, Morgantown, WV accessing historico-geographical material through the Internet /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1248.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2000.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 132 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126).
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Kowalewski, Daniele Pechuti. "Experiência-Brasil: diversidades, diferenças, educação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-06032015-125524/.
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O tema da mestiçagem sempre faz remissão à pureza. Sua complexidade deriva do embaralhar das origens que seu fruto configura. Questionar aspectos relacionados a esse tema e às permanências não lineares que ele evoca é o principal foco dos escritos aqui reunidos. Tratase, então, de um olhar perspectivo e genealógico, tal como estabelecido por Foucault, acerca da educação, da alteridade e do Brasil, que tem por alvo ideias que mesclam questões metafísicas e empíricas, como a ascendência e a identidade. Para tanto, dois vetores analíticos foram estabelecidos. O primeiro refere-se à emergência do Brasil como lugar de experiência, definida não como realidade, coisa ou fato que possa ser facilmente objetivada, mas como elemento que se conforma a partir dos discursos de verdade e das práticas concretas que dela emanam. O segundo vetor é o enunciado educar para a diversidade, responsável por relacionar as abordagens acerca da alteridade aos quatro vértices componentes da experiência- Brasil: natureza, raça, miscigenação e cultura. Conforme se defende, esses dois vetores operam a partir de três pares justapostos, que implicam passado/futuro, global/local, civilização/cultura. A apreensão de tal tendência somente foi possível com base na sistemática investigação do arquivo composto para a pesquisa. A fonte privilegiada embora não exclusiva foram as revistas do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, publicadas entre 1839 e 1945. A partir delas e da combinação com diversas outras fontes, foi possível abarcar os enunciados que relacionam o Brasil perante o mundo e o mundo perante o Brasil, com especial destaque para as questões do convívio e das trocas (simbólicas ou comerciais). Diante disso, essas publicações são retomadas ao longo de todo o trabalho, ainda que o espaço de destaque dado a elas seja o primeiro escrito apresentado. Nele, demonstra-se o ensejo do Instituto em dar sentido à história nacional, com o propósito de decidir o lugar dos indígenas e negros na civilização brasileira, resolver os enigmas de seu passado e cultivar um panteão da memória nacional. Essa construção deveria servir para formar um imenso dossiê sobre o Brasil, que conviria a posteriores pesquisadores e daria subsídio à futura instrução pública. O segundo escrito da tese incide sobre os saberes de médicos, antropólogos, filósofos, educadores e pensadores sociais acerca das mestiçagens, nos âmbitos local e global, no passado e na atualidade. Observou-se a reativação, em tempos hodiernos, dos princípios da antropofagia, dos troncos raciais e das mestiçagens, reconfigurados nas atuais diretrizes educativas, que agora incentivam o aprender a conviver na globalização, tanto pelo enaltecimento das misturas culturais quanto pelo incentivo da afirmação identitária. O último escrito relaciona os princípios do reconhecimento, do multiculturalismo e da representação à democracia contemporânea. Nesse regime de verdade que extrapola as funções políticas, a origem e o direito à voz são problematizados a partir de dois mitos fundadores da prática democrática. O primeiro advém da democracia ateniense e o segundo define a chamada democracia racial brasileira. Ambos serão ladeados e contrapostos a partir da ascendência étnica. Ao longo do trabalho, os três escritos relacionam-se a partir da ordenação proposta do arquivo consultado, que faz emergir o Brasil como país do futuro, da convivência e da educação. Sem prescrição ou promessa, a presente pesquisa, busca mapear a emergência de um novo sujeito cosmopolita global, mestiço culturalmente e afirmado numa identidade, que é modelado com base na experiência-Brasil e em suas lições acerca da história e da civilização.As a theme, crossbreeding always refers to purity. Its complexity derives from the shuffling of origins that is configured by its fruit. Questioning aspects related to this theme and the non-linear permanence it evokes is the main focus of the writings gathered herein. It is, therefore, an angled and genealogical perspective, such as the one established by Foucault, about education, otherness and Brazil, whose target is the ideas that blend together metaphysical and empirical issues, as ascendency and identity. For such, two analytical vectors were called in. The first one is related to the emergence of Brazil as a place of experience, defined not as reality, a thing or fact that may be easily objectified, but as an element that is shaped by the discourses of truth and the tangible practices arising from it. The second vector is the formulation in the phrase educating for diversity, responsible for putting in relation the approaches about otherness involving the four vortices that make up the experience-Brazil: nature, race, crossbreed and culture. As they are advocated, these two vectors operate from three juxtaposed pairs, which allude to past/future, global/local, civilization/culture. Apprehending such tendency was only possible through a systematic investigation of the field built for the research. The privileged source although not exclusively was the journals by the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, published between 1839 and 1945. Based on those journals and by combining other different sources, it was possible to embrace the formulations that relate Brazil before the world and the world before Brazil, with a special highlight for the issues of conviviality and exchanges (either symbolic or commercial). As a result, these publications are resumed throughout the research, even if the highlight they take is the first writing presented. In it, the Institute´s opportunity to assign some meaning to the national history becomes clear, with the purpose of deciding the place of Indians and Blacks in the Brazilian civilization, of resolving the enigmas of its past and of cultivating a pantheon for the national memory. This construction was intended to give rise to a huge dossier about Brazil, which would be convenient to further researchers and would provide subsidy to the future public instruction. The second writing of this dissertation concerns the knowledge of physicians, anthropologists, philosophers, educators and social thinkers about crossbreeding in the local and global scope, in the past and in the current time. It could be noted that the principles of anthropophagy, of racial stems and of crossbreeding were reactivated at the present day, reconfigured in the current educational guidelines which now encourage the idea of learning how to live together in the globalized world, both by the praise of the cultural blending and by the incentives to ethnic affirmation. The last writing relates the principles of acknowledgement, multiculturalism and representation to contemporary democracy. In the regimen of truth which extrapolates the political functions, the origin and the right to be heard are problematized based on two founding myths of the democratic practice. The first myth comes from the Athenian democracy and the second one defines the so-called Brazilian racial democracy. Both will be flanked and opposed by the ethnic ascendency. Throughout the research, the three writings are intertwined by the sorting proposed to the field being consulted, which makes emerge Brazil as a country of the future, of conviviality and education. Without any prescription or promise, this study seeks to map the emergence of a new global cosmopolitan subject, who is culturally halfbreed and statedin an identity, who is modeled on the basis of the experience-Brazil and in itslessons about history and civilization.
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Ribeiro, Renilson Rosa. "Destemido bandeirante a busca da mina de ouro da verdade : Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, o Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro e a invenção da ideia de Brasil Colonia no Brasil Imperio." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280821.
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Orientador: Paulo Celso MiceliTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Os construtores do Império brasileiro, especialmente no final do período regencial e ao longo do Segundo Reinado, foram muito hábeis e eloqüentes na invenção de representações discursivas - escritas e imagéticas - que acabaram por forjar um tipo de memória oficial para a nação. Nesta perspectiva, a presente tese tem o objetivo de identificar e a analisar as representações temáticas da História do Brasil Colonial forjadas no Brasil Imperial, por meio da 1ª edição da Historia geral do Brazil (1854/1857), de Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878) - o visconde do Porto Seguro, procurando perceber as suas articulações com o projeto historiográfico do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB), fundado em 1838, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Palavras-chave: 1) Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de (1816-1878). 2) Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro. 3) Brasil - Historiografia. 4) Identidade. 5) Brasil - História - Império, 1822-1889.
Abstract: The builders of the Brazilian Empire, especially at the end of the regencial period and over the Second Reign, were very skillful and eloquent in the invention of discursive representations - written and imagery - that ultimately create a kind of official memory for the nation. In this perspective, this thesis aims to identify and analyze the thematic representations of History of Brazil Imperial Colonial forged in Brazil, through the 1st edition of the Historia Geral do Brazil (1854/1857), by Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878) - the viscount of Porto Seguro, looking perceive their relations with the historiographical project of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB), founded in 1838, in Rio de Janeiro.
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Arriaga, Rivera Armando. "Reconstruction of Historic Maps of Central Mexico - S. XVI and XVII Using Geographic Infor- mation System (GIS)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119372.
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Most work on old maps has been to explain the forms of representation, its various uses and applications. At mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries it has developed historical cartography, means by which maps were made with old information or data mapping planes. In this paper the goal is to use the current mapping methods to reconstruct maps, based on the platform of geographic information systems (GIS); international conventional symbols; physical-geographical context ofthe time and current reference system for mapping and as a tool for spatial analysis.La mayoría de los trabajos de cartografía antigua han sido sobre la explicación de las formas de representación, sus diversos usos y aplicaciones. A mediados del siglo XX y principios del XXI se ha desarrollado la cartografía histórica, medio por el cual se han realizado mapas con información antigua de datos o planos. En este trabajo el objetivo es emplear los métodos de representación cartográfica actuales, para reconstruir mapas, con base en las plataformas de los sistemas de información geográfica (SIG); la simbología convencional internacional; el contexto físico-geográfico de la época y un sistema de referencia actual, para generar cartografía y sea una herramienta para el análisis espacial.
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May, John Joseph. "Imaging the spectral earth an historical epistemology of scientific instrumentation and geographic perception in urban climatology /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1779835141&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Tennessee, State of. "Washington County Geographic Features." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1986. https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/8.
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This Washington County, Tennessee map includes geographic features including streams and mountain peaks, as well man made features such as highways, railroads, communities, and cemeteries. While the publication date is not included, it was received by the Documents, Law and Maps Department in 1986. However, due to the spelling of a few of the landmarks, the actual publication likely predates 1983. Some points of interest include the Veteran's Administration Mountain Home which is now the site of the Quillen College of Medicine and White Rock Ridge located where Buffalo Mountain Park would be established a decade later in 1994.https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1007/thumbnail.jpg
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Ros, Navarro Carme. "Les Estrategies familiars i la mobilitat social dels menestrals a Catalunya, segles XVII-XIX. El cas de Mataró." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7462.
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L'organització del treball artesà de les societats preindustrials en gremis o confraries d'ofici semblava reforçar les tesis que postulaven la rigidesa i la immobilitat de les societats d'Antic Règim. Però, els pocs treballs realitzats a Catalunya sobre les estratègies familiars adoptades pels menestrals han apuntat que la transmissió intergeneracional de l'ofici i les estratègies matrimonials dirigides a casar-se amb membres del mateix entorn professional potser no es donaven d'una manera tan general com la historiografia havia subratllat. Aquestes haurien estat dues de les fórmules seguides per les famílies menestrals a fi de preservar un patrimoni força eteri en un marc econòmic ple d'incerteses i serien les responsables de la imatge de societats estàtiques o poc mòbils. Respondre aquestes dues qüestions és el punt de partida d'aquest treball. Per dur-lo a terme s'han analitzat les estratègies familiars dels menestrals d'un centre urbà català, Mataró, entre els segles XVII i XIX.La organización del trabajo artesanal de las sociedades preindustriales en gremios o cofradías de oficio parecía reforzar las tesis que postulaban la rigidez y la inmovilidad de las sociedades de Antiguo Régimen. Pero, los pocos trabajos sobre las estrategias familiares seguidas por las familias menestrales basados en Cataluña, han apuntado como la transmisión intergeneracional del oficio y las estrategias matrimoniales dirigidas a casarse con miembros del mismo entorno profesional, quizá no se daban tan extensiblemente como siempre había subrayado la historiografía. Éstas habrían estado dos de las fórmulas seguidas por las familias menestrales para preservar un patrimonio bastante etéreo en un marco económico lleno de incertidumbre y serian las responsables de la imagen de sociedades estáticas o poco móviles. Responder a estas dos preguntas es el punto de partida de este estudio. Para ello, se han analizado las estrategias familiares de los menestrales de un centro urbano catalán, Mataró, entre los siglos XVII y XIX.
The organization of the home-produced work in pre-industrial societies in guilds or brotherhoods seemed to reassert the thesis which postulates the rigidity and immovability of societies during the Old Regime. But the few jobs done in Catalonia about the familiar strategies adopted by artisans, have pointed out that the intergenerational transmission of professions and marriage strategies in order to get married to members from the same professional area was not as usual as the historiography had shown. These strategies had been two of the ways followed by families of artisans in order to preserve an ethereal patrimony in an economical setting full of uncertainties, and they would be the responsible of the static and immovable societies. The aim of this study is to answer these two questions. In order to do so, familiar strategies of artisans from Mataró, an urban Catalan settlement during the XVIIth-XIXth centuries, have been analysed.
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Robinson, Stephen D. "The Historical Production of Elemental Phosphorus in Pinellas County, Florida: An Environmental Assessment." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002075.
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Contreras, Anthony D. "Historical GeoCollaboration : the implementation of a scoring system to account for uncertainty in Geographic data created in a collaborative environment /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3555.pdf.
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Miller, Matthew J. "An historical examination of water-powered mill sites and markets using geographic information system analysis : Augusta County, Virginia, 1880-1885 /." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09052009-041037/.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994.Vita. Abstract. One map in back pocket. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75). Also available via the Internet.
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Cerrito, Emily L. "Reconstructing Historical Hurricane Tracks in the Atlantic Basin: Three Case Studies from the 1840s." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7607.
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Analyzing past tropical cyclone activity enables researchers to recognize patterns of hurricane variability, estimate hurricane return periods, and assess local risk to future storms. This paleotempestology study used original primary data to make the historical record as comprehensive and accurate as possible for three major hurricanes: October 1844, October 1846, and September 1848. This thesis presents the reconstructed storm tracks, assesses the societal impacts, and evaluates the storm intensity of these three major hurricanes for the eastern U.S. and Cuba. The data utilized in this study include ship logbooks, newspapers, diaries, and instrumental meteorological records. A geographic information system (GIS) was used to construct the storm tracks of all three hurricanes and to map synoptic temperature data for the October 1846 and September 1848 storms. The estimated intensity of the tropical cyclones throughout their life cycle was included in the storm tracks, and intensity upon landfall was categorized based on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The results show that the October 1844 storm made landfall in western Cuba as a category 4 hurricane, causing substantial damages to Matanzas and the surrounding area. The October 1846 hurricane struck western Cuba with the intensity of a category 5 hurricane, producing devastating impacts in Havana before transitioning to an extratropical cyclone as it traveled northward across the eastern United States. The September 1848 storm originated in the western Gulf of Mexico and made landfall near Tampa Bay, Florida as a category 4 hurricane. This detailed investigation of individual historical hurricanes is an important step towards a more complete understanding of local-level hurricane risk as well as basin-wide hurricane variability.
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Zhang, Yiting. "Urban morphology and ecosystem services : a historico-geographical study of fringe belts and urban green spaces in Birmingham, UK." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8455/.
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Cities have tended to be treated by ecologists as essentially physical entities unconnected to the concerns of historical geographers. In contrast, urban morphologists have tended to focus on how urban physical expressions of culture have changed over time: such an approach has stimulated research on the characteristics and planning of the form of cities that has been largely divorced from concerns about ecosystem services. This is somewhat paradoxical in light of the significant areas of most cities that are vegetated and the increasing evidence of the value to society of these green spaces. This thesis examines the connection between urban morphological research on the fringe-belt concept, as developed by M. R. G. Conzen and others, and the character and distribution within cities of major areas of green space. The principal focus is on how green spaces within fringe belts that are embedded within cities (for example, parks, allotment gardens, golf courses, and land attached to educational and medical institutions) have changed over time, especially during the past 100 years. Detailed studies of fringe-belt sites in Birmingham reveal a decline in green space over time but maturation of surviving green space towards mature wood-grassland. Comparisons are made with residential areas.
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Epperson, Ann E. "Internet GIS as a Historic Place-Making Tool for Mammoth Cave National Park." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/227.
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This project laid the groundwork for an Internet-delivered Public Participation Geographic Information System to facilitate exploration and discovery of the past communities of the Mammoth Cave Park area. The emergence of Internet Web 2.0 design along with distributed GIS services allows for anyone to interact with and add to the information found on central Internet sites. Historical geography often relies upon public participation from individuals outside the academic world to provide narrative descriptions, photographs and manuscripts of past places and events to augment information held by institutions and academia. A public-participation website for the Mammoth Cave Historic GIS (MCHGIS) created a central Internet location for dispersed and disparate data related to pre-park communities to be presented with a geographic context. The MCHGIS project allowed for visualization of the pre-park communities in unique ways and contributed new understandings of this pre-park area.
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Wijayarathne, Dayal Buddika. "Shallow Groundwater Modeling of the Historical Irwin Wet Prairie in the Oak Openings of Northwest Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435749359.
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Appleby, Christina. "Modeling Historical Meander Bends Reconnection on the lower Long Tom River in Lane Co. and Benton Co., OR." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20717.
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Since the damming and channelization of the lower Long Tom River in the 1940s and 1950s, the quality and quantity of habitat for coastal cutthroat trout and spring Chinook salmon in the watershed has dramatically diminished. In order to better understand the potential for stream restoration, this study uses 2D hydraulic modeling to determine the impact of reconnecting historical meander bends to the main stem of the lower Long Tom River on localized flooding, sediment erosion and deposition, and salmonid physical habitat. These models compare the current conditions to two restoration scenarios that allow for fish passage given 1, 2, and 5-year flood events at two study sites. This study reveals important variations in the impact of restoration between the study sites and the reconnection methods. It also suggests that there is the potential for a large increase in the area of accessible habitat with stream restoration.
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Swim, Michael. "Bituminous coal miners' strike incitement events of Muchakinock, IA 1879-1900| An historical geographic analysis of how a company town became a union town." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1592742.
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Examining the creation and peopling of the Consolidated Coal Company (CCC) company town Muchakinock, Iowa through the industrial labor migrations of Welsh, Swedes and African-American residents, this thesis focuses upon the social contestations between workers, owners and unions during four bituminous coal miners' strike incitement events in town history (1879–1900). Presenting some of the most comprehensive historical geography research to date on the company town of Muchakinock, the thesis presents eight claims for resident's strike resistance and ultimate capitulation and union affiliation; and the associated spread of capitalism and trade-unionism across Iowa's coal mining landscapes during the Gilded Age. Seeking a normalization of historical discourse, findings revealed the presence of conflicting discourses in existent historical communications content between predominantly white and African American historical communications content, and identified the emergence of a hegemonic discourse largely based on the representations of the former. More than just a micro-history of the relict company town of Muchakinock, Iowa, the thesis variously explores Muchakinock's wider network of connected geographies across Iowa terrains and the United States.
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Argaez, Maria Adelaida Hoyos. "A cascavel neotropical Crotalus durissus: uma abordagem morfológica e da historia natural em populações do Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/10/10132/tde-09082013-163503/.
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A variação de cunho geográfico nas populações naturais está intimamente ligada às características ecológicas do ambiente como também aos processos históricos que resultaram no estabelecimento de linhagens distintas. Poucas espécies de serpentes têm sido estudadas adequadamente para determinar se existe variação geográfica na morfologia associada ao seu ciclo reprodutivo e dieta. As serpentes do gênero Crotalus são consideradas um bom modelo para estudos relacionados à variação geográfica devido à sua ampla distribuição, que abrange diversos tipos de hábitats. A cascavel C. durissus está restrita a América do Sul. No Brasil ocorre em todos os estados, exceto no Acre e Espírito Santo. São reconhecidas algumas populações isoladas na Floresta Amazônica. Algumas das suas populações exibem um nível considerável de variação morfológica e ecológica, sendo que populações adjacentes podem diferir drasticamente. De um modo geral, são escassos os estudos com esta espécie no Brasil, requerendo urgentes investigações para estabelecer se a variabilidade observada está associada a algum fenômeno específico. Neste estudo, foi examinado um total de 870 exemplares de C. durissus no Brasil. Em termos gerais, de acordo com o dimorfismo sexual, os resultados indicaram que as fêmeas apresentaram um maior número de escamas no ventre, enquanto que os machos apresentaram um número maior de escamas associadas à cauda e de losângulos. Em poucos casos as fêmeas exibiram comprimentos rostro-cloacais maiores, no entanto os maiores tamanhos da cabeça foram evidenciados neste sexo. Por outro lado, na maioria dos casos, os machos foram mais compridos do que as fêmeas, apresentando caudas mais longas. Similarmente as listras paravertebrais foram significativamente maiores nos machos. As análises discriminantes indicaram que as populações apresentaram padrões de variabilidade morfológica altamente complexos, ainda que a segregação de algumas das populações possa refletir fortes tendências evolutivas próprias dentro de algumas linhagens. A análise de variação geográfica indicou que variáveis ambientais influenciaram parcialmente a variabilidade morfológica nas populações de acordo com a sua distribuição. De acordo com os parâmetros relacionados a historia natural, o ciclo reprodutivo das fêmeas foi bem conservador, refletindo um padrão bienal e sazonal. Nos machos o ciclo espermatogênico mostra também um padrão sazonal exibindo variações anuais entre as populações. A associação entre os processos históricos, aspectos fisiológicos e condições climáticas são provavelmente os principais fatores que influenciaram as mudanças nestes padrões reprodutivos em fêmeas e machos. A dieta foi constituída principalmente por roedores, fato possivelmente associado à maior abundância e disponibilidade deste tipo de presa ao longo do ano nas áreas de ocorrência da espécie. No entanto, lagartos do grupo dos teiídeos podem ser considerados como itens alimentares eventualmente importantes na dieta de C. durissus do Brasil.The geographical variation is intimately associated to the ecological characteristics such as the historical process of a species. A few species of snakes have been studied adequately to determine an existence of geographical variation in morphology, reproduction and diet. Rattlesnakes (Crotalus) are considered a good model for geographical variation studies, due to their wide distribution that include several habitat types. The rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus is restricted to South America. In Brazil, this group is present throughout the country, except in states of Acre and Espírito Santo. In addition, there are isolated populations in open areas in Amazonia, in the Amazonian savannas in the states of Amazonas, Roraima, Pará and Amapá. Some populations of C. durissus show considerable variation in the morphology, reproduction and diet composition even with neighboring populations differing drastically from each other. Generally, there has been little research conducted of C. durissus in Brazil needing urgent investigation to this respect. A total of 870 specimens of C. durissus were examined. In general, according to the sexual dimorphism, the results indicated that the females have a higher number of ventral scales, while the males showed a greater number of scales associated to the tail and the lozanges. In a few cases, the females exhibited larger snout-vent length but larger head sizes were shown in this sex. Overall, males were longer than females, exhibiting tails and paravertebral stripes which were relatively longer. The discriminant analysis showed in general populations with patterns of highly complex morphological variability, even though the segregation of some populations may reflect strong evolutionary tendencies of their own within some groups. The analysis of geographic variation indicated that environmental variables partially influenced the morphological variability in populations according to their distribution. In accordance with parameters related to natural history, the reproductive cycle of females, was extremely conservative, reflecting a biennial seasonal pattern. In males, the spermatogenic cycle also shows a seasonal pattern, which demonstrated annual variations between populations. The association between the historical processes, physiological aspects and climatic conditions is probably the main factors that influenced these reproductive patterns in females and males. The diet was composed mainly of rodents, habit related to the abundance and availability of the prey, however teid lizards can also be considered as an important food item of the diet of C. durissus from Brazil.
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Luke, Brandon Thomas. "ROMAN POMPEII, GEOGRAPHY OF DEATH AND ESCAPE: THE DEATHS OF VESUVIUS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384891685.
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Nobajas, i. Ganau Alexandre. "Bottled natural mineral water in Catalonia: Origin and geographical evolution of its consumption and production." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/110466.
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Bottled mineral water has managed to become a commodity and can be found virtually anywhere in the world. However, even if it is a very common and well recognized product, little it is known about its history, about how, when and why it came to be. The origins of bottled water can be found in mid-19th century Europe and America, when spas started selling their waters outside their facilities. However, soon other springs which had not relation with traditional hydrotherapy started bottling their waters as well. Four conditionings have been found which explain why bottled water started being produced at that point in time and not before. Those factors are the existence of an adequate container, the invention of an efficient transportation method, a cultural/social predisposition and lack of salubrious water. When those four conditionings occurred at the same time, the bases for a thriving mineral water bottling industry were established. By exploring each of these factors in Catalonia for the period that has been found to encompass the first golden age of bottled mineral water (1840-1930), the general hypothesis is proven, meaning that all the aforementioned conditionings were necessary for the commoditisation of bottled water. Only when all those four factors took place at the same time it was possible to have a thriving mineral water business, not before. Accordingly, when in the 1930s some of those conditionings changed, the bottled market sector started a sudden downturn period, which did not stop until the all four factors coincided in time again.L'aigua mineral envasada ha aconseguit convertir-se en una mercaderia habitual que es pot trobar pràcticament arreu del món. No obstant això, tot i tractant-se d'un producte comú i reconegut, poc se sap sobre la seva història: com, quan i per què va arribar a ser el que és actualment. L'origen de l'aigua embotellada es remunta a l'Europa i l'Amèrica del segle XIX, moment en què alguns balnearis van començar a vendre aigua fora de les seves instal•lacions. No obstant això, aviat altres fonts que no tenien cap relació amb la hidroteràpia tradicional van començar també a envasar-ne. S'han descobert quatre condicions que expliquen per què l'aigua embotellada va començar a ser produïda en aquest moment i no un altre. Aquests factors són: l'existència d'un envàs adequat, la invenció d'un mitjà de transport eficient, la manca d'aigua salubre i una predisposició cultural i social. En coincidir aquestes quatre condicions en el temps, es van donar les circumstàncies perquè s'establissin les bases que desenvoluparien una indústria pròspera d'embotellament d'aigua mineral. Al mateix temps, en explorar cadascun d'aquests factors, s'ha trobat que la primera Edat d'Or de l'aigua mineral envasada a Catalunya va ocórrer aproximadament entre 1840 i 1930. En analitzar la hipòtesi general aplicada a aquest període i lloc, s'ha pogut provar la seva veracitat, la qual cosa vol dir que tots els condicionants abans esmentats són necessaris per a la comercialització de l'aigua embotellada. Només quan aquests quatre factors són coetanis és possible desenvolupar un sector d'aigua mineral envasada pròsper. En conseqüència, quan a la dècada de 1930 alguns dels factors esmentats van canviar, el mercat d'aigua envasada va entrar en un període de crisi que no es va aturar fins que les quatre condicions van tornar a coincidir en el temps.
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Walls, Michael D. "REDISCOVERY OF A NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: THE CHICKASAW HOMELAND AT REMOVAL." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/37.
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Little information beyond generalities exists regarding the cultural landscape of the Chickasaw Indians in their ancestral homelands prior to Removal in the late 1830s. This dissertation evaluates one possible archival source for specifics of Chickasaw land use, the field notes and survey plats compiled as part of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). The process of original survey following land cession treaty divided the ceded area up into the familiar square-mile rectangular system of townships and ranges that extends from the Mississippi Territory westwards, in the so-called public land states.
The research compiles all cultural observations made by the surveyors within a fourteen township area (totaling 504 square miles). This study area, generally located on the west bank of Town Creek between present-day Tupelo and Pontotoc MS, was chosen to cover the traditional center of Chickasaw settlement and elements of important roads such as the Natchez Trace. The resulting catalog of observations was compared to similar features on the township plats and to other cultural resource inventories to identify patterns of inscription and possible erasure of Native American cultural activities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology was used to consolidate and compare these data resources.
The PLSS survey documents provide a useful but not complete resource for identifying Chickasaw cultural presence within the study area. No consistent pattern of omission or erasure of Chickasaw activities was identified. The analysis identifies several opportunities and caveats for future researchers who might extend this analysis, including technical challenges in applying GIS technology to this data.