The Emperor Elagabalus : fact or fiction? / by Arrizabalaga y Prado, Leonardo de, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Constitution -- A mental exercise -- Coins -- Inscriptions -- Papyri, ostraca, and mummy labels -- Sculpture : round -- Sculpture : relief -- Topography -- Res gestae -- pt. 4. Speculation -- The question Why? …”

Decoding Domesday / by Roffe, David

Table of Contents: “…Domesday Past and Present; From content to purpose: the mystique of the book; From genealogy and topography to society and economy; Of statistics and shopping lists; From purpose to content: the primacy of the inquest; 2. …”
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A calendar of Cornish glebe terriers, 1673-1735 /

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The ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books / by Darnell, John Coleman, Manassa, Colleen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Main themes of the Netherworld books; Royal tombs of the New Kingdom; Development of tomb decoration and use of Netherworld Books; Netherworld Books in temple settings; Function of the Netherworld Books; Topography of the netherworld books: conceptions of space and time; Dating the Netherworld Books; Cryptography in the Netherworld Books; Post-New Kingdom uses of the Netherworld Books; A note on the translations -- Book of adoring Re in the West -- Book of the Hidden Chamber -- Book of gates -- Book of caverns -- Books of the creation of the solar disk -- Books of the Solar-Osirian unity.…”
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The later medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem : mapping the medieval countryside and rural society /

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The later medieval Ïnquisitions Post Mortem. Mapping the medieval countryside and rural society /

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Practices of coexistence : constructions of the other in early modern perceptions /

Table of Contents: “…Birnbaum and Marcell Sebok -- The good fowler as a world conqueror : images of Suleyman the Magnificent in early modern Hungarian literary practice / Ágnes Drosztmer -- Repercussions of a murder : the death of Sehzade Mustafa on the early modern English stage / Seda Erkoç -- Constructing a self-image in the image of the other : Pope Pius II's letter to Sultan Mehmed II / Özden Merçan -- Topography of a society : Muslims, dwellers, and customs of Algiers in Antonio de Sosa's Topographia, e Historia General de Argel / Johanna Tóth -- The Ragusan image of Venice and the Venetian image of Ragusa in the early modern period / Lovro Kuncevic -- All Moldavian eyes on Ottomans : perceptions and representations at the end of the fifteenth century / Teodora Artimon.…”
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Contesting environmental imaginaries : nature and counternature in a time of global change /

Table of Contents: “…Re-contextualizing nature -- Day and night : topography and renewal in Thoreau's Walden and Douglass's Narrative / Klaus Benesch -- James Schuyler's flower poems and the urban pastoral aesthetic / Tatiani G. …”
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The imperial security state : British colonial knowledge and empire-building in Asia / by Hevia, James Louis, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Commission on the Training of Officers for the Scientific CorpsThe emergence of a military techno-elite; The United Services Institute and professionalization; Refashioning imperial masculinity; 4: Forming intelligence, making an archive; From topography to intelligence; The Intelligence Branch at Simla; 5: Disciplining the space of Asia: triangulation and route books; Route books, reconnaissance and survey mapping; Route Books and Reconnaissance; Mapping; Making an archive of space; The Afghan Boundary Commission: demarcating space; Pacing the void.…”
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