Book Description
A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.
Author : Saul Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 4454 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780231145541
A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
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ISBN : 0520321871
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Page : 832 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 1922
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress. Map Division
Publisher :
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Atlases
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Author : Philip Lee Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Atlases
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Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Joseph R. Dennis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1684175542
"This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most important sources for premodern Chinese studies. Methodologically innovative, it represents a major contribution to the history of books, publishing, reading, and society. By examining how gazetteers were read, Joseph R. Dennis illustrates their significance in local societies and national discourses. His analysis of how gazetteers were initiated and produced reconceptualizes the geography of imperial Chinese publishing. Whereas previous studies argued that publishing, and thus cultural and intellectual power, were concentrated in the southeast, Dennis shows that publishing and book ownership were widely dispersed throughout China and books were found even in isolated locales. Adding a dynamic element to our earlier understanding of the publishing industry, Dennis tracks the movements of manuscripts to printers and print labor to production sites. By reconstructing printer business zones, he demonstrates that publishers operated across long distances in trans-regional markets. He also creates the first substantial data set on publishing costs in early modern China—a foundational breakthrough in understanding the world of Chinese books. Dennis’s work reveals areas for future research on newly-identified regional publishing centers and the economics of book production."
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Page : 2188 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1924
Category : American literature
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Author : Merrick Lex Berman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253022568
Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.
Author : Isabella Mitchell Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Best books
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