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Rethinking Globalizations eBook Series

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  • The Global Governance of Food

    Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke, Andrew Schrank ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now travel far flung trade routes to reach us. International trade in food has tripled in value and quadrupled in volume since 1960 and tracing the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Lake Nipigon

    Where the Great Lakes Begin

    by Nancy Scott ...
    2017 Gertrude H. Dyke Award — NominatedThe history of Lake Nipigon, where the Great Lakes begin.The name Nipigon is evocative of storied brook trout, cold clear waters, elusive woodland caribou, sweeping vistas, and spectacular scenery. Situated in the heart of Northwestern Ontario, almost every map of North America shows Lake Nipigon as a significant geographic feature, yet few people know its ... Read more

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  • The New Imperialism

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies
    People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism and what difference ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Phantom Atlas

    The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meetThis richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Mediterranean Winter

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and Eastward to Tartary, relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a youth through the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up and the other tourists are gone, so the damp, cold weather takes him back to the 1950s and earlier—a golden, intensely personal age of tourism.Decades ago, Kaplan voyaged ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Maggie Wall—The Witch Who Never Was

    by Geoff Holder ...
    It is one of the most astonishing monuments in the British Isles, never mind Scotland. Deep in the Perthshire countryside stands a cairn of boulders topped with a tall, spindly cross, the stones painted with the stark words:MAggie Wallburnt here1657 as a WitchThere is nothing like it anywhere: a historic monument to a named witch. There is, it is true, the occasional plaque here and there in ... Read more

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  • Lake Erie Stories

    Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater Ocean

    by Chad Fraser ...
    Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so much more; mysterious, unpredictable, and known by mariners for its sudden violent weather and dangerous shoals, Lake Erie has been the stage for some of the most dramatic events ever to occur on the North American continent. From the earliest explorations ... Read more

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  • The Founding of Madras (Chennai)

    by N S Ramaswami ...
    Who were the Damarla brothers? For what apparently mysterious reasons did Francis Day urge the East India Company to move the trade point from Armagon to what is now Chennai? How did the other settlements react to the British entry?This book, written in 1977, when the city was still called Madras, offers a fascinating picture of the antecedents to the building of Fort St. George and what happened ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Deserts

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Middleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life forms? Deserts are remarkable places. Typified by drought and extremes of temperature, they can be harsh and hostile; but many deserts are also spectacularly beautiful, and on occasion teem with life. Nick Middleton explores how each desert is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000

    by Christian B. Long ...
    The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, one that is focused on the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and taste in the era before the rise of digital cinema. ... Read more

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  • Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait

    by John Western ...
    The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences of the citizens of Strasbourg. From the turn of the twentieth century until 1945, Europe's ruling idea of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/Straßburg the prize in a tug-of-war between the two greatest continental powers, France and Germany. Then, in the immediate post-war period, ideals for European unity set up various European ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes

    Human-Environment Interaction from the Neolithic to the Roman Period

    by Kevin Walsh ...
    This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental aim of this book is to bridge the intellectual and methodological gaps between those with a background in archaeology and ancient history, and those who work in the palaeoenvironmental sciences. The volume also aims to provide ... Read more

    $124.69 USD