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Full-Text Articles in Geography
Reading The World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Pieter Van Den Keere’S Map, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula (Amsterdam, 1608/36)., Matthew Edney, Irwin Novak
Reading The World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Pieter Van Den Keere’S Map, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula (Amsterdam, 1608/36)., Matthew Edney, Irwin Novak
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Proceedings of the first “Reading the World” conference (1994), edited by Matthew Edney and Irwin Novak, and published in 2001 by the University of Southern Maine on behalf of the Friends of the Osher Map Library.
"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner
"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
As a social history of the town and people of Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1750 to 1810, this dissertation traces the evolution of communal identity in the early American backcountry. By focusing on the growth and development of one urban community, this work details not only how and why one group of backcountry inhabitants took pride in their town's outward accomplishments and material prosperity, but also explains how Carlisle's evolutionary growth prompted the town's people to see themselves as key players in an economic and social universe that stretched far beyond the geographic boundaries of their localized realm.;Using state and county …
The International Diffusion Of The Mormon Church, Samuel Otterstrom
The International Diffusion Of The Mormon Church, Samuel Otterstrom
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis outlines the international diffusion and growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church. A model of Mormon spatial diffusion in foreign countries is developed incorporating both a functional and spatial perspective. The functional perspective includes supply and demand variables which influence the rate of growth of the Mormon Church in a country. The functional perspective is not fully explored in the thesis. The spatial perspective which the study concentrates on seeks to show a general spatial pattern related to the spread of the Church within countries.
The original diffusion of the Church to …
"You Gone Have To Learn To Talk Right": Linguistic Deference And Regional Dialect In Harry Crews's Body, Barbara Johnstone
"You Gone Have To Learn To Talk Right": Linguistic Deference And Regional Dialect In Harry Crews's Body, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
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