World War I sparked numerous innovations in military cartography. In the Palestine theater as elsewhere, the British and Dominion forces leveraged new technologies, including aerial photography and wireless intercepts, to supplement their use of intelligence to map enemy troop p…
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This study bridges modernist and postcolonial studies to examine the relationship between decadence and empire across the long twentieth century. From Britain and Ireland to the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, I argue that decadent aestheticism and fin-de-siècle radicalism co…
When Felipe II (1556-1598) brought the Spanish Habsburg court to Madrid in 1561, the Plaza del Arrabal lay just outside the town walls; by the early seventeenth century, it was engulfed by the expanding city, refashioned into a rectangle, and renamed the Plaza Mayor. Since its r…
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, city views and topographic miniature paintings became a distinctive feature of luxury manuscript illustration in the Ottoman Empire. These images were part of an architectural vision of the Empire's cites—a vision that was cultivated…
In a time of multiplying histories and changing perceptions of geography, my dissertation looks to revise prevailing conceptions of medieval space. It does so by challenging the consensus view that medieval maps of the world, or mappaemundi, have primarily a 'theological functio…
This dissertation is a study of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean, beginning with Sultan Selim the Grim's conquest of Egypt in 1517, and ending with the corsair Mir Ali Beg's last naval expedition to the Swahili Coast in 1589. The aim of my research is to create a coherent n…
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Esperanto speakers and Esperantists - mostly, but not only, in Paris - this thesis asks: how can the Esperanto community and movement come into being in practice if Esperanto speakers are scattered all over the world and may, at ti…
This research involves understanding the civic learning that emerged from the ways individuals in two civic action groups, Greenhill Historical Society (GHS) in Bonnybridge, a deindustrialised location, and Cumbernauld Village Action for the Community (CVAC) in Cumbernauld Villa…
Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia, an Italian verse paraphrase of Ptolemy's Geography accompanied by thirty-one engraved maps, was printed in Florence in 1482. Through the donation of hand-illuminated copies of the book to the sons of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, Bayezid and Cem,…
Works belonging to a specific astronomical genre of the pre-modern Islamic world called hayʾa often include a section called hayʾat al-arḍ. This section discusses the physical and geographical characteristics of the Earth as a physical, spherical body located at the center of th…
The increasing use of water for irrigation, industry and municipal water supplies has led to an increasing need for careful planning for the usable water resources. Skilled planning and careful management are essential to achieve the level of efficiency in water use desired. Eff…
Objectives of this dissertation research were: (1) to develop multiple regression equations to predict available (Bray-1) P levels at various subsoil depths, using soil horizon, soil profile, parent material, location, and climatic variables; (2) to develop prediction equations …
The morphology, taxonomy, fossil history and biogeography of the Agamidae are reviewed and a phylogenetic history of the 53 genera and 317 species is hypothesized. The morphological review includes the cranial and postcranial skeleton, abdominal and pectoral girdle muscles, fore…
This dissertation deals intimately and critically with the fundamental question of Malay statecraft. It presents texts that have been uncritically considered 'cartographic', 'historical' and 'literary' on Perak a step into the different possible ways of navigating and thinking a…
The Tunica Hills region is located in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana and north into Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It is characterized by hills 60-122 m above sea level that are composed of loess deposits. A mixed mesophytic forest association dominated by magnolia, holly and …
The results of a comprehensive and systematic research program on coal-derived liquid fuel (CDL) combustion using The Pennsylvania State University Fuels and Combustion Laboratory hot-wall process furnace are reported. This study represents the first time flames of these alterna…
This project puts forth the argument that when the late eighteenth century’s taste for nature and picturesque tourism had peaked, writers following in the picturesque tradition grappled with the limitations and confines of these aesthetic categories. In the chapters that follow,…