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A View from the Highlands

Author : Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814843027

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This book analyses the rise of the settlement system in the heartland of the Minangkabau region in the highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It explores the regional settlement pattern arising from Adityavarman’s highland interregnum (c. 1347–75), and provides the first attempt to place the archaeological remains and the landscape of Tanah Datar, a fertile plain in the highlands of West Sumatra, in a cultural historic synthesis. The core of this research consisted of excavations at Bukit Gombak and Bukit Kincir. Bukit Gombak was a central place in Adityavarman’s kingdom, and provides evidence of the organization and material development of this political entity. Surveys uncovered other settlements that could be examined in relation to each other and to sites from earlier and later periods, and used to sketch out the settlement history of Tanah Datar from prehistoric times to the colonial period. The book consists of detailed studies of metal, ceramics and glass finds by laboratory-based specialists as well as careful descriptions of stone, clay and other finds.

A History of the Scottish Highlands

Author : Thomas Maclauchlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Clans
ISBN : UCBK:C020996287

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The Scottish Clearances

Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141985947

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'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change, as traditional ways of life were overturned by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands. Based on a vast array of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency. This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but it came at a huge price.

The Highlands of Aethiopia

Author : William Cornwallis Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466977

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Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045402315

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Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway (N.Y.)
ISBN : MINN:31951P00602671G

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Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation Pdf

Considers H.R. 3012 and related bills, to provide for establishment of the Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway in New York State.

Christian Work

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Christianity
ISBN : NYPL:33433003056581

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Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland, Particularly Staffa and Icolmkill: to which are Added a Description of the Falls of the Clyde, of the Country Round Moffat, Etc. Fifty-two Plates

Author : Thomas GARNETT (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024315908

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Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland, Particularly Staffa and Icolmkill: to which are Added a Description of the Falls of the Clyde, of the Country Round Moffat, Etc. Fifty-two Plates by Thomas GARNETT (M.D.) Pdf

The West Highland Way

Author : Robert Aitken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035123327

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Opened in 1980, the West Highland way was Scotland's first long distance walking route. This text is a companion guide for those taking the walk from Glasgow to Fort William and provides Ordinance Survey maps. It has been revised to incorporate changes in the character of the route over the years.

Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Author : Florian Mühlfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382973

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Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia by Florian Mühlfried Pdf

The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of identification with the state at its margins, as well as local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general.

The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China

Author : Alice Yao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190493790

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The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China by Alice Yao Pdf

Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC. In the first century BC, Han imperial conquest reduced local power and began a process of cultural assimilation. Instead of a clash between center and periphery or barbarism and civilization, this book examines the classic study of imperial rule as a confrontation between different political temporalities. The author provides an archaeological account of the southwest where Bronze Age landscape formations and funerary traditions bring to light a history of competing warrior cultures and kingly genealogies. In particular, the book illustrates how mourners used funerals and cemetery mounds to transmit social biographies and tribal affiliations across successive generations. Han incorporation thus entangled the orders of state time with the generational cycles of local factions, foregrounding the role of time in the production of power relations in imperial frontiers. The book extends approaches to empires to show how prehistoric time frames continue to shape the futures of frontier subjects despite imperial efforts to unify space and histories.