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The article analyzes the development of spatial sensitivities in the Israeli historiography of the Mizrahi Jews. The goal of the article is to examine and illustrate the impact of this sensitivity among different generations of historians... more
). Geopolitical historiography is embedded in the nature of evolutionary human-social consciousness. It’s a timeless trajectory of a complex nexus that blends geography and history in a symbiotic intercourse. The outcome is a discovery... more
The entry begins with a definition of geography and with a description of what the discipline shares with the other social sciences and what makes it distinctive among them. Terminological clarifications are provided with regard to the... more
Nel prologo del Timeo Platone ci parla per la prima volta della mitica isola di Atlantide, ponendo le basi per la creazione di un’utopia immortale. Nel 1841, nelle sue celebri "Études sur le Timée de Platon", il primo commento scientifico... more
Simandan D (2005) "New Ways in Geography" Timisoara, Editura Universitatii de Vest/ West University Press, 230 pp. The first part of the volume - "Old Ways" - addresses the question whether geography as we know it is worth keeping. The... more
Irish Economic and Social History, 30 (2003), 150-151; review of John H. Andrews, A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, 2nd ed. (Dublin, 2002).
“Próximo Oriente en la Antigüedad: Grecia, Egipto y Mesopotamia” es un juego didáctico de aula diseñado para el alumnado de 1º de ESO en la asignatura Geografía e Historia. Sobre un mapa que estaba en desuso con contenidos de las primeras... more
In Bamako, like in the majority of south of Saharan cities, there is a very fast demographic growth moving from 658 275 inhabitants in 1987 to 1 016 514 in 1998, then 1908104 in 2009 (INSAT, 2010). For a few decades, the town has been... more
Le Indicazioni Nazionali del 2012 propongono una rinnovata idea di curricolo, che offra agli insegnanti una contestualizzazione ed un orientamento per la progettazione e per la pratica. Alla luce di tale ridefinizione, è possibile pensare... more
El estudio de las catástrofes naturales: sequías, sismos, inundaciones, ha alcanzado particular relevancia en los últimos años, especialmente a partir de la combinación entre la ocurrencia de los fenómenos geológicos, hidrológicos y... more
Capítulo quinto de la Tesis doctoral "La conflictividad social en la Galicia medieval (Siglos XIII-XV)" dedicado a la "Geografía de la Conflictividad" donde se estudian los principales focos conflictivos o "puntos calientes" a lo largo de... more
The growth and specialization of Cuba’s economy since the end of the 18th Century and while slavery was maintained has been studied extensively, but there are perspectives that enjoy little research. One of them, important for its... more
The name al-Andalus was used since the Muslim conquest of 711 to designate the territory of the Iberian Peninsula. Along with this geographical dimension, the Arab authors also gave the name a political meaning, to describe the part of... more
Revista de El Colegio de San Luis, año IV, núm. 8, 2014, El Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosí, pp. 96-127. ISSN: 2007-8846. (Índice de Revistas Mexicanas de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica).
Simandan D (2006) "Marginally Modern. Psychoanalysis and the deconstruction of inadequate communities" Arad, ‘Vasile Goldis’ University Press, 264 pp. The book aims to present a critical history of the process of modernisation in the... more
This study argues that trade was crucial to the formation of borders and boundaries in the Himalayas in the pre-colonial and colonial periods. If we only look at the military and political factors in the making of borders, we miss out on... more
Memoria y Sociedad. Revista de Historia, vol. XVI, núm. 33, 2012, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, pp. 154-169. ISSN: 0122-5197.
Algunas reflexiones en torno a las maneras en que se ha pensado la historia en relación a sus espacialidades, los lugares y las escalas. Para ello, nos apoyaremos en un marco histórico preciso: el período de las guerras de independencias... more
Αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας αποτελεί ο σχεδιασμός και η υλοποίηση ενός τρισδιάστατου ψηφιακού παιχνιδιού γνώσεων (3D) για τη Χάρτα του Ρήγα Βελεστινλή από ομάδα μαθητών της Β’ και Γ Γυμνασίου. Στόχοι της εφαρμογής είναι η γνωριμία... more
RESUMO: Apresentam-se neste artigo os resultados da estratégia do jogo didático, em História e Geografia de Portugal, num contexto de 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, com o objetivo de avaliar o seu contributo no desenvolvimento de... more
Resulta indiscutible la influencia, e incluso en numerosas ocasiones el determinismo, que ejercen los factores geográficos sobre casi todos los aspectos de la vida humana, por ejemplo la forma en que se organiza cada sociedad en un... more
The boundaries of historical research as much as the objects of study are shaped by contemporary concerns. The world of the historian encourages particular historical investigations, elevating some topics while obscuring or even actively... more
En la década de 1840 una agrupación de la ciudad de México conocida como Academia de Letrán convocó a distinguidos literatos nacionales interesados en temas científicos, entre ellos, la Geografía. Éstos dieron a conocer algunos escritos... more
O Campo de Santana forjou-se a partir do sagrado e foi palco de relevantes acontecimentos no século XVIII, no período Joanino, bem como na monarquia, culminando com a Proclamação da República, em 1889. Este artigo preocupa-se em analisar... more
Estamos construidos sobre el tiempo y vivimos organizados por territorios. Parece un topico insistir en que somos tiempo y espacio. Constituyen factores incuestionables, pero hay que subrayar que tales soportes no explican nada si no se... more
This paper is a short story of an interdisciplinary project which begun as a Tabula Imperii Romani volume of Epirus. The author presents traditional methods of data collection and visualization from the fields of history, archaeology, and... more
The paper compares and contrasts the critical stance with the wise stance in human geography and offers three alternative models for conceptualizing the relationship between these two stances.
Irish Historical Studies, 37, no. 145 (2010), 146-48; review of Stiofán Ó Cadhla, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey 1824-1842: Ethnography, Cartography, Translation (Dublin, 2006)
Nos recentes trabalhos de Geografia Histórica, principalmente da produção brasileira, há uma recorrente crítica ao que Abreu (2000:15) chamou de uma “ditadura do presente”, uma lei na qual a Geografia estaria fadada a estudar o tempo... more
Review of the book "Lost States" by Michael J. Trinklein