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Partially for Da, partly for the historians in the audience. Feel free to whale away on it or suggest other things; I was having real problems with a non-scholarly-to-the-point-0f-boredom book on the German Diaspora, especially to America in the 1800s. I also skipped a lot of works on regions within Germany. Yes, I believe that [...]
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak. My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]
Love what you’ve done with your hair and the outfit. Is that a Cuban cigar?
Cripes howdy, but I’m getting a lot of private mail on this one from that earlier post. Let me say that I was in a hurry to post, but that I had my own set of problems with all of those maps. Here’s some new maps that have been pointed out to me: This is [...]
Museum exhibits: Historical maps from Dutch cartographers Mapping Arabia (from Aramco) Historical maps of Macau (Library of Congress) The David Rumsey collection (worldwide historical maps) The Social Explorer (US Census maps 1940-2000) Chinese Maps: Shanghai, 1928 More pre-PRC China maps (heavy on Shanghai) GIS: Chinese Historical GIS GIS: Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (a [...]