| Silvio A. Bedini - 1994 - 372 pagine
A scholarly study of the role of the incense timekeeper in early Chinese history. | |
| David Buisseret - 1998 - 212 pagine
Editor's NoteIntroduction by David Buisseret1: Mapping the Chinese City: The Image and the Reality Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt2: Mapping the City: Ptolemy's Geography in the ... | |
| David Buisseret - 1990 - 364 pagine
"The authors write authoritatively and crisply . . . . How to use maps in teaching is spelled out carefully, but the authors also manage to sketch in the background of American ... | |
| David Buisseret - 1992 - 232 pagine
These diverse essays investigate political factors behind the rapid development of cartography in Renaissance Europe and its impact on emerging European nations. By 1500 a few ... | |
| David Buisseret - 1996 - 228 pagine
But these hand-drawn maps, often displaying elaborate cartouches and elegant coats of arms, served as far more than mere records of property ownership - they were treasured ... | |
| David Buisseret, Steven G. Reinhardt - 2000 - 164 pagine
Creolization, the process of cultural interchange--in this case, between peoples of the continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean--is an important aspect of the American ... | |
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