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Too High and Too Steep
Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its...
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East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe...
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How to Read the American West
A Field Guide
From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in How to...
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The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918
The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 comprehensively covers an important, complex, and controversial period in the history of Poland and East Central Europe, beginning in 1795 when the...
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East Central Europe between the Two World Wars
East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution...
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Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804
Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early...
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The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795
For four centuries, the Polish–Lithuanian state encompassed a major geographic region comparable to present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania. Governed...
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Seattle Geographies
Seattle is located on the northwest edge of the continental United States, flanked by two mountain ranges and set on the calm shores of Puget Sound. It is remote from the country's hub but a portal...
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Historical Atlas of the Arctic
The vast empty spaces of the Poles were the last frontier to be assailed by explorers intent on achieving a geographical goal--the North Pole was finally reached in 1909. But long before that men...
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Unbuilt Environments
Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
In the latter half of the twentieth century, industrial pioneers came to British Columbia with grand plans for resource development projects, many of which never materialized. Unbuilt Environments...
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Public Interest, Private Property
Law and Planning Policy in Canada
When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community’s interest prevail over the rights of private property owners? Public Interest, Private Property...
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The Proposal Economy
Neoliberal Citizenship in "Ontario's Most Historic Town"
In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province's "Most Historic Town." This honour, though purely symbolic, came as Cobalters were also applying for and winning...
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Home Is the Hunter
The James Bay Cree and Their Land
The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense...
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Second Growth
Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia
Broader political and economic changes are dramatically reshaping rural and small-town communities in British Columbia and across Canada. Increasingly, however, much of the responsibility for community-based...
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Four Centuries of Special Geography
An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published in English before 1888
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