Geography

Geography (from Greek: γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets. The first person to use the word γεωγραφία was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they have changed and come to be. Geography is often defined in terms of two branches: human geography and physical geography. Human geography is concerned with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 French

Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …

in a range of disciplines, including history, geography, archeology, anthropology, literary studies, and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

twentieth century. Digital Archives Initiative, Geography Collection of Historical Photographs of Newfoundland flakes, ca. 1900. Digital Archives Initiative, Geography Collection of Historical Photographs of Newfoundland cities) sparse numbers scattered over a vast geography was typical. Some Indigenous na- tions tended


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

criminality was also reinforced by the urban geography of child migrants’ former lives, which he sketched


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

manifested ever more directly (and visibly) in the geography of capitalism.”41 The globalization of the late projects that sought to rear- range the political geography of the region during the late-nineteenth and ethnicity but on a common political-economic geography whose contours were delin- eated by the dynamics the great depression rapidly eroded the Balkan geography that had animated the revolutionary avant-gardes 23 is, was conceived as part of a wider Slavic geography of kinship that was understood to stretch from


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …

Geographical Society.24 Goodridge later taught geography at Memorial University and painted the murals time in Newfoundland, which was favoured by its geography and became, in the pithy phrase of Commissioner


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

history and economics to ethnopharmacology and geography. It encompasses both ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the …

international relations, law, anthropology, sociology, geography, and history, the series high- lights new and disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, social policy, and social


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right …

frontiers, making the kingdom’s borders porous.7 This geography and these trails offered Calvinists a way to southern France. Some historians argue the social geography of Calvin- ism was influenced by the proximity


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history …

often-cited summary of the Canada– US relationship: “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 June 2024 English

The costs and capabilities of grid-located batteries have improved dramatically in recent years and could play an import role in South Africa's electricity system. This report examines the challenges facing …

peak demand and renewable energy supply The geography results in long transmission lines subject to


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